[l1feh4ck]

>>Engineers are permitte d to spend up to 20% of their time working on any project of their choice, without needing approval from their manager or anyone else.

Can someone tell more about what they did and the things are that permitted (even though without needing approval.

[wutbrodo]

It's all kinda of things: I did mine on another team I was thinking of transferring to (as a sort of pilot program), a friend of mine in ads worked on a cloud robotics team (this was like 5 years ago), another friend spent some time on a research team for the stuff he had done his thesis on, etc

[oscardelben]

You definitely need to tell your manager though.

EDIT: one personal example is at some point I took some external classes and used 20℅ time for it. But most cases are for developing some sort of tools or product.

[Itaxpica]

In theory basically anything software related is possible, and I've never heard of a legitimately suggested 20% project being rejected, but these days its most common for people to 20% building a feature that interests them for another project, rather than an entirely new project.