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It's strange to have so much anti-sentiment here about the internal data that Google has. Of course Sergey doesn't have to spend 60 hours as he retired. I hav
by xiphias2 2y ago
It's strange to have so much anti-sentiment here about the internal data that Google has.
Of course Sergey doesn't have to spend 60 hours as he retired.
I have never been asked to work more than 40 hours when I was working at Google, I had amazing salary, and I knew that the people who are getting promoted over level 4/5 were working on the weekends as well, 60 hours was just normal for them.
Google has enough data to see that the most productive engineers are the ones who spend so much time mastering their skill.
Also I believe an AI company (which Google categorizes itself as) can't stay competitive with China if the 100 people in the core AI team work just 40 hours a week. For the rest of 100000 people it doesn't matter that much, as they are working more on integration and less competitive stuff.
- belter 2y agoGoogle must have more PHds that most US Universities combined, and as you acknowledge 60 hours is the normal. The results speak to itself. For the last 10 years, not a single innovative product out of selling ads, search sucks and have been outclassed in AI. Maybe work smarter?
- xiphias2 2y agoIt's making more money selling ads than the AI companies selling AI, so it's classic innovators dilemma: they can't really launch an AI product that gives better quality results then Google search ads, which are really bad at this point. I should have talked about the Google of pre 2010, while it was a great company and the time I also wanted to work 60 hours a week there. For the current one, not so much