Are Google employees more productive because of company perks?
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#2Quora sure does take in a lot of data.
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#3Not covered in first answer: you could leave at 6, but if you stay till 7 there's a roast dinner. I suspect people who still work at Google are sometimes a little blind to their own behaviour.
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#4Not covered in first answer: you could leave at 6, but if you stay till 7 there's a roast dinner. I suspect people who still work at Google are sometimes a little blind to their own behaviour.
In college I automatically filtered out companies that provided dinner for this reason. If you want a free meal you have to stay late. But then if you leave immediately after it looks like you were just staying for the free food so you may as well stay until 8 to look like a team player. It's a pattern I didn't want to start
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#5Not covered in first answer: you could leave at 6, but if you stay till 7 there's a roast dinner. I suspect people who still work at Google are sometimes a little blind to their own behaviour.
In college I automatically filtered out companies that provided dinner for this reason. If you want a free meal you have to stay late. But then if you leave immediately after it looks like you were just staying for the free food so you may as well stay until 8 to look like a team player. It's a pattern I didn't want to start
Any option for take out?
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#6Journalism/editing tip: Never start a headline with a question. And definitely never start a headline with a question that can be answered: "No" by a reasonable guestimation.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
In college I automatically filtered out companies that provided dinner for this reason. If you want a free meal you have to stay late. But then if you leave immediately after it looks like you were just staying for the free food so you may as well stay until 8 to look like a team player. It's a pattern I didn't want to start
Any option for take out?
Yes. There are (or used to be) to-go containers. Lots of people stayed late enough to just grab food, when I was there. You already stayed that late, it's fine. You can go home without judgement.
Re: Are Google employees more productive because of company perks?
#8Journalism/editing tip: Never start a headline with a question. And definitely never start a headline with a question that can be answered: "No" by a reasonable guestimation.
How did that come to be a best practice? I like titles with questions because they can frame the scope and objective of the article really well.
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#9Not covered in first answer: you could leave at 6, but if you stay till 7 there's a roast dinner. I suspect people who still work at Google are sometimes a little blind to their own behaviour.
When I was deciding to interview with Google, I picked one of their non-primary offices (which I considered to be Mountain View, Seattle, and NYC). I believe it was a specific decision and continued philosophy of the site director here to not serve dinner to encourage a healthier work/life balance.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any option for take out?
Yes. There are (or used to be) to-go containers. Lots of people stayed late enough to just grab food, when I was there. You already stayed that late, it's fine. You can go home without judgement.
Further, a not-insignificant fraction of people stop working in the 4-6 range, do non-work activities on campus (gym, volleyball, various classes), and then eat dinner and leave. I've certainly never felt any form of pressure to work until (or past) dinner.