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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by nineplay on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:41PM (#38210001)
I went from full time employee to contractor at the same company once and it was honestly a huge relief.

No awkward team lunches

No useless tchotchkes

No boring all hands

No forced participation events like 'hackathons'.

I just worked. It was great

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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by foota on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:17PM (#38210590)
It was Microsoft, wasn't it? :)
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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by sgerenser on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:19PM (#38214307)
Microsoft never had forced participation in hackathons. It was generally encouraged but at most maybe 25% of FT engineers participated.
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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by cdchn on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:52AM (#38216271)
Your lack of participation at extracurricular activities will be recordlessly considered in your next compensation refresh.
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