Comments on: Engineering grouplets at Google

By: Mpromedia Webmarketing Mark

Mpromedia Webmarketing Mark — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:52:38 +0000

Working on Bugs is so…boring

greetings from Germany

By: oyun

oyun — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:47:15 +0000

Hehe.. Testing on the toilet

By: Multi-Worded Adam

Multi-Worded Adam — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:15:29 +0000

Whatever happened to just doing something, making it work, getting a positive result from it and then telling everyone after since you would have pissed them off and not been allowed to do it before?

Screw grouplets. Maverick thinking is the way to go.

By: Photography

Photography — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:57:25 +0000

Then what do you do the rest of the time ?

By: Ganesh J. Acharya

Ganesh J. Acharya — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:08:25 +0000

This is a great “work around” used by google to manage it’s employees time to concentrate on the actual work in hand. I’ve been someone who used to work almost 40-60% on things those made me happy. This normally drifts away an employee from the actual task/goal to be accomplished. So, now managing the time that an employee loves gives 80% assured productivity.

I am sure this is also going to help the people working at google and google as well. Hat’s off to the person who has actually thought of introducing this method.

By: djtoo

djtoo — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:52:18 +0000

Sounds like a cult to me …

By: dockarl

dockarl — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:16:19 +0000

Hehe.. Testing on the toilet - That’s one of the things that really stuck out to me back in April when I went for my last interview there - that’s called taking work seriously!!

http://www.utheguru.com/my-recent-interview-with-google

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By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:02:06 +0000

…If you have a great technical idea, (…) you take it to your fellow engineers and convince them that it’s good. Good ideas spread fast…

Unfortunately, not everywhere. I find it very good and interesting (and, sorry to say, hard to believe) that this system works out at Google’s office. I have worked for a large german group in Brazil for many years where some fellow engineers and bosses wished that the ideas from others would not spread out. The reason for that, I suppose, is that many don’t want you to grow in the company because they want to grow there before you do. And, in some cases, they want you out because they want your place and your ideas. Selfish, uhh?!

Well, I’d worked for another major company where this situation wasn’t so bad and ideas could go a little farther. But, as my experience there was short, I can’t say much about it.

By: Central Ohio Search Marketing

Central Ohio Search Marketing — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:21:56 +0000

Just curious, are there limitations in place to keep people from taking their 20% time and turning it into 80% time, and how often does that become an issue at Google? I know that when I get an idea worthy of that type of effort, it is tough to not dive in completely and work on it.

By: Bilel

Bilel — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:45:59 +0000

Google is the most popular Search Engine
And with a such idea Google will be the best work environment