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Some day people will look back and pinpoint that the day the free snacks were taken away was the day that Google started to be just like every other company...
The tightening that [CFO] Patrick [Pichette] in particular did, who I think is the current Google hero
After this, re-read: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile... Start at the text "(cue happy rat)".
They had better not get rid of that 20% of your time on a pet project perk. That is an inherent strategic advantage.
and
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9qej9/i_am_a_google_en...
interesting point of views from an ex-googler and a googler (with both rifting into each other's thread)
if you don't mind the trolly-one liners, a good insight into the 20% project("20% time is a lie"), food etc...
Some day people will look back and pinpoint that the day the free snacks were taken away was the day that Google started to be just like every other company...
Extreme Programming advocates readily available snacks in the workspace as an effective productivity and morale boost!
They had better not get rid of that 20% of your time on a pet project perk. That is an inherent strategic advantage.
A lot of Googlers report 20% time is a bit of myth, because many engineers end up struggling more than 100% time to deliver their principle project.
Lots of people I know are too busy on their main project to even think of 20% time. It's nice to know that you have 2 months of 20% time booked but it's not feasible for most people to bank it and then use it later.
I'd say that unless your 20% project is a pet management project then the chances of you working on it 20% of your time is pretty small:(
Some day people will look back and pinpoint that the day the free snacks were taken away was the day that Google started to be just like every other company...
Extreme Programming advocates readily available snacks in the workspace as an effective productivity and morale boost!