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on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"

on the acceptance of working overtime A few lessons from the masters on how having people happy to work long hours for them. http://instagr.am/p/KTOGobADKa http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/techtalk/archive/2005/11/16/493549.aspx "So that means just over 50 hours per week. That pretty much is what I would say is average for a new hire. Is that a lot? Not enough?" ----- http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/ "The Google lifestyle: Food at Mountain View in the early days was great. Things got a bit crazy when Charlie was cooking in the same tiny kitchen that he had cooked for 70 people in when there were something like 400 people eating in the cafe, although the food quality didn’t go down nearly as much as I would have expected it to. But this was just one of many examples of overcrowding in the offices that happened over the years at Google. (And honestly, keeping the cooks happy seemed like a good idea to me…) But along with the food came the Google lifestyle: if you were staying for dinner, it better be because you were working afterwards. It was frowned upon to leave right after dinner. I think a lot of people spent quite a bit of time either just before or just after dinner hanging out and not really being all that productive, which is nice for the mostly 20-something crowd, but I can sympathize with the people who have families that didn’t fit in. I had my own reasons for not wanting to hang out at work, so I never really got that far into the Google social scene. And my experience was that the people who spent all their time at Google were the ones that ended up on the sexier projects or in charge of things. (Admittedly, some of these people were also workaholics, and I wasn’t willing to give up some of my non-work social activities, but there seemed to be a bit of favoritism going on as well.)"