Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How...
by djcapelis on Sunday January 05, 2020 @09:36PM
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Totally get you weren’t applying the same brush to everyone!
> Apple seems to be the easiest place to get away with slacking if you want to
You are the first person I’ve heard this one from! I’m almost pleased to see some balance? I worry we have the reputation of being too grindy too often!
I think this can be very org dependent. I wonder if most of the people you know are clustered in a specific part.
> I've never met anyone who talks about how ease it is to slack off at Facebook or Amazon.
Weird. I have. We seem to have very different experiences.
Also whenever I’ve talked to people who work inside Facebook I just. I just couldn’t. I’m certain I’d go stark raving depressed so quickly there. The froyo on campus is nice though.
Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How...
by daniel_reetz on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:07AM
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The joke (while I was there) was that Apple engineers went to Google to retire.
Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How...
by daniel_reetz on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:05AM
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I worked at Apple. I saw all kinds of things, but never slacking. Quite the opposite.
Just that from what I can tell talking to many FAANG workers (and working with a bunch of them who came from other FAANGS), Apple seems to be the easiest place to get away with slacking if you want to, Google also being an easy place to do it.
It's why most of the people I worked with left those places -- they got tired of the slackers.
I've never met anyone who talks about how ease it is to slack off at Facebook or Amazon. And I never saw anyone get away with slacking at Netflix.