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I work at Google. Most people here do a lot of work. But maybe 5% do next to nothing, or nothing you couldn't do in 2 hours a day. I imagine this is the case at
by habosa 6y ago
I work at Google. Most people here do a lot of work. But maybe 5% do next to nothing, or nothing you couldn't do in 2 hours a day. I imagine this is the case at any sufficiently large corporation. So if you can find a remote job at a BigCo, it might be worth a try! Note that you can't do nothing from Day 1, you have to try for maybe a year and then you can do nothing (based on my observations)
- supsuspusppsups 6y agowhat positions do those 5% typically have? I imagine they're internally facing, but is there any other common patterns to the work they focus on?
- habosa 6y agoIn my experience it's normally an L4 or L5 software engineer working on a project with a lot of tech debt and no major upcoming launches. So maybe it's some random little-used Cloud product or a piece of internal infrastructure. Or it could be some aimless skunkworks team that leadership forgot about. They also almost always have a bad manager who is sort of aware that nothing is getting done but doesn't have the management skills to address it.