20% time is a scam to help their [Google] engineers really focus on their remaining 80% time. Really good engineers like to have fun. They get distracted from the job they are supposed to be doing. They like to innovate — they don’t like to do the boring work that is required to make the product commercial grade.
20% time is a scam to help their [Google] engineers really focus on their remaining 80% time. Really good engineers like to have fun. They get distracted from the job they are supposed to be doing. They like to innovate — they don’t like to do the boring work that is required to make the product commercial grade.