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by throwaway3627 2499 days ago
People think I'm crazy not to go prostitute myself for a job at Google; I think they're crazy for volunteering to be bridled and ridden around for 20 hours a day for years without having equity or ownership in the profits.
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Equity is a significant, and often the largest, part of most Google employees' total compensation.
20 hours a day o_O
How many programmers can truely leave work at work, even if they really want to.

Mental tasks occupy all your waking hours, and its very hard to avoid.