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>Usually home by 8 or 9pm I assume they got into work at 8 or 9am? That's terrible. I'm really glad that I work a standard 8 hour day at my small no-name compa

• nostrademons 12y ago
  More like 10 or 11. Most of my friends are late-risers (perhaps because I'm a late-riser), and Google doesn't have set hours. People have been known to roll into work around 2:30 PM as long as they get their work done.
  • vdnkh 12y ago
    That's pretty cool. I hope to work there some day. My hours now are flexible; I come in and leave an hour early to avoid traffic.
    • watmough 12y ago
      Nice that you live somewhere that an hour makes a difference. I work 6am to 3pm, and I still get stuck in traffic pretty regularly.
  • shazow 12y ago
    ... Not to mention that you can easily spend 2-3 or more hours of your day eating lunch/dinner/pingpong/making coffee/dance classes/gym/etc.
• sdab 12y ago
  When I worked there, it was 12pm-8pm. My friends who work there now do the same. We just get to make our own hours and being in my twenties, I like sleeping in.
  • johnward 12y ago
    I find this interesting. How do people collaborate? Did most of your team work the same hours? Do you just schedule meetings from noon-4? I would personally hate that schedule as someone with a family.
    • differentView 12y ago
      Every brilliant Googler not collaborating with other brilliant Googlers is also not collaborating with other brilliant talents at Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, etc...
    • CocaKoala 12y ago
      You can get the same no-rush-hour benefit by going the opposite direction; I show up to the office at 7am, and I'm out the door by 330 at the latest. There's somebody else in my office that I've only ever overlapped with for a couple hours at a time because he basically never shows up before noon. He used to give me a hard time about how early I left every day until I explained that I was showing up to the office an hour or two after he went to sleep each night. I'm in California and I try to get meetings scheduled for the late morning or early afternoon. 11am meetings are totally reasonable for anybody on the west coast, and it's not too hard to convince people in (for example) New York to not schedule meetings for before 10am their time. On the rare occasion that I need to make a 6am phone call with somebody who's a real go-getter on the east cast, I'll just bite the bullet and show up at 6, and then take off around 2. On the other hand, I used to work in a bakery, so waking up at 7am is still sort of like sleeping in for me. But there's nothing like finishing your day at 330; I love it.
      • megamann 12y ago
        I do this everyday also. I'm gone by 3:15 and my coworkers are there until 6-7. I prefer going in before rush hour and leaving before rush hour and get the most of the day light. It is nice not having hard work hours so we can work on our own schedule. Now if I could just get to work from home a day or two.
      • shanusmagnus 12y ago
        At my office they seem to be biased against this -- whatever time you get in, if you disappear before 5 there's a sense that you're shirking. And this despite what is, overall, a super healthy culture. There's no stigma at all about showing up at 830 and leaving at 1700, but showing up at 700 doesn't seem to allow you to leave earlier without incurring raised eyebrows. I wonder if this is unusual, since I've not experienced it before.
  • dennisnedry 12y ago
    I have the same schedule now. It's much better since you avoid the crazy traffic of the typical 9-to-5'ers and getting to sleep in is the best thing ever.
    • Periodic 12y ago
      I made the mistake of moving 18 miles (San Jose) from where I work (Mountain View). Two years ago traffic wasn't bad but I swear it's getting worse. If I leave the house at 9:00 it takes 45-60 minutes to get to work. If there's a major accident or problem it can take up to 90 (happened once). Now I just don't leave the house before 10:00. My commute is less than 30 minutes and I regain 30-60 minutes every day. I feel very fortunate to work at a company and with a team that supports my preferred schedule.
      • duderific 12y ago
        I agree it's getting worse over the last year or so. My commute is about 8 miles, from Seaport to 92 on 101, and I never get much above 10 mph. Bumper to bumper the whole way. It didn't used to be like that.
        • roflchoppa 12y ago
          yeah, ive been doing 880 from hayward into Cupertino for 5 years now, and its been getting worse, which i guess is a good thing because people have jobs? or bad because there are too many people here.....
• endtime 12y ago
  I normally work 1:00 to 9:00, at Google NYC.
• timjahn 12y ago
  Amen.