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Journalism/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.
Not 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
This is true for the 3 big tech companies I've worked for (which is the topic of this thread). Sometimes I get in at 10, sometimes 7. Sometimes I leave at 4, sometimes 8. I've yet to have someone comment on my schedule.
Yet I continue to see people say stuff like "oh free dinner is a trap! ahh!" "A gym on campus? Oh don't fall for it!" I don't get it.
Not 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.
I bet they even make excuses before leaving at 8 pm... Its really very sad that smart human beings act like that due purely to social pressure.
Earlier 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.
> The problems you work on are new and interesting
> The people you work with are smart and helpful
I would add the great infrastructure, which is probably the main reason.
But none of these are perks that folks usually think of when they think of Google perks.
Quora sure does take in a lot of data.
Journalism/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.
Journalism/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.
Therefore, any headline that poses a question will result in the answer being "no."
It doesn't apply in this case because it's a Quora question and not an editorialized piece of journalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Not 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.
Young, brilliant programmers but still totally dependent on the approval of their peers - to the degree that they not only work very late to get food, they stay even longer to avoid someone judging them. I bet they even make excuses before leaving at 8 pm... Its really very sad that smart human beings act like that due purely to social pressure.
They are creating all these things to make it a 2nd home for people. They want people to be there a LONG time.
I'm happy with 40hrs with some days remote and I don't think I could switch to googles approach.