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Re:Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Ma... by xvector on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:03AM (#29427713)
Some Googlers I know barely work 20 hours!

Anyone have tips for finding a chill team at Google? Passed all interview rounds last time but decided to join another company. Might give it another go if I can get one of those <20hr gigs...

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Re:Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Ma... by zerr on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:30AM (#29428199)
Golang team? I've heard the plan is to slack off next 10 years to add pattern matching in Go 3.
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Re:Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Ma... by zdkl on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:13AM (#29427757)
Step 1: don't post on HN about how you want to minimise your work-time I guess?
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Re:Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Ma... by zerr on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:31AM (#29428211)
The whole HN is dedicated to minimizing work-times actually.
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Re:Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Ma... by xvector on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:26PM (#29438688)
Hey, I do good work even if I work less time! 40hr workweek is kind of pointless anyways.

The last 20hrs have maybe a 20% return, and I work quickly anyways. I also skip BS meetings.

My managers have always respected me despite me working obviously fewer hours. Quality of work + meeting your goals > some meaningless metric.

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Re:Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Ma... by radicalbyte on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:25AM (#29427842)
Bighetti's team is chill :)
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Re:Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Ma... by JaggerJo on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:14AM (#29428117)
can confirm. We built a potato canon last month.
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Re:Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Ma... by hn_go_brrrrr on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:41AM (#29427927)
Not payments.
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