Considering the problem was solved over the weekend, it seems like this problem was solved in engineers' spare time. Since only the people who were interested w

Considering the problem was solved over the weekend, it seems like this problem was solved in engineers' spare time. Since only the people who were interested would solve the problem, I imagine it wouldn't be too far fetched to think they could do this in addition to whatever else they were supposed to do as it would be fun for them. I imagine an ideal scenario would be something between just letting everyone do whatever they want and having some tasks assigned, as there might be things that nobody wants to do but obviously still need to be done. The right balance probably depends on the size of the company as well. For example I believe Valve is famous for not managing its employees and letting them work on whatever they want. I suppose they can only really do that because they are a private company though.