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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by marcus_holmes on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:41AM (#26166755)
I didn't read it as that bad - he states it should be a balance.

Balancing work and life means if you get the Yoga session at 11am, then you're also OK with getting paged at 11pm to fix server downtime.

When I've managed teams, I always held that it's quid-pro-quo. If I want the team to stay late to meet the deadline, then I'm OK with them leaving early to pick the kids up from school (though not on the same day, obviously). If they need to take the morning off to go to the dentist, that's cool as long as they're OK with getting a call on the weekend if there's a problem. It's a give-and-take. If the give-and-take gets too much, one way or another, then that's something we can talk about at a regular one-to-one and work out.

Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by Mauricebranagh on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:19AM (#26167257)
At googles scale you would have shift coverage for that shurly
Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by marcus_holmes on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:12AM (#26168005)
good point - at that scale the "team" includes all the people you'd ever need to cover every eventuality