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Google is such a big company you will find huge variety between teams. I have not personally worked on a team at Google that expected overtime (all of mine chos

by ceras 12y ago

Google is such a big company you will find huge variety between teams. I have not personally worked on a team at Google that expected overtime (all of mine chose to cut or scale back features rather than increase hours when things got tight), but I have heard of others who have.

jshen 12y ago
But how do you manage scope and deliverables on a team that doesn't occasionally require overtime?
- jsolson 12y ago
  You ship later or you scale back the scope to something manageable.
  - jshen 12y ago
    Do you work at google?
    - jsolson 12y ago
      Yes. As I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8938244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8938244, I'm an engineer on Google Compute Engine. I talked about how my team at Google, specifically, handles this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941915
      - jshen 12y ago
        Thank you for taking the time to write that up. Now I have so many questions :)