Day in the Life of a Google Manager

Re:Day in the Life of a Google Manager by ceras on Saturday January 24, 2015 @01:23AM (#8938985)

Google is such a big company you will find huge variety between teams. I have not personally worked on a team at Google that expected overtime (all of mine chose to cut or scale back features rather than increase hours when things got tight), but I have heard of others who have.

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Re:Day in the Life of a Google Manager by jshen on Monday January 26, 2015 @10:15PM (#8951059)

But how do you manage scope and deliverables on a team that doesn't occasionally require overtime?

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Re:Day in the Life of a Google Manager by jsolson on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @05:41PM (#8956632)

You ship later or you scale back the scope to something manageable.

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Re:Day in the Life of a Google Manager by jshen on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @11:24PM (#8958079)

Do you work at google?

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Re:Day in the Life of a Google Manager by jsolson on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:02PM (#8963113)

Yes. As I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8938244, I'm an engineer on Google Compute Engine.

I talked about how my team at Google, specifically, handles this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941915

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Re:Day in the Life of a Google Manager by jshen on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:24AM (#8964639)

Thank you for taking the time to write that up. Now I have so many questions :)

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