[gnu8]

> ("we had managers that were extremely good about work life balance" and "marathon not sprint" should tell you all you need to know.)

That's how all jobs should be though. The only time anyone should be sprinting is if the building is on fire. I guess Google is moving to a 9-9-6 schedule, and they want to do it in Munich where they can pay peanuts for it.

[ferrouswheel]

Ah but unlike the crazy USA, Germany has a legal maximum of 48 hours per week.

[tgma]

Haha sure, that's assuming Google's starting baseline is 9-5, mind you, which is not even close. Many people barely work at Google and "work-life balance" is really a euphemism for not really working.

Google used to be about working smartly and not grinding just for grind's sake, which is totally respectable. At some point, however, that became Google's external brand as well, and went in the head of the people being recruited. The result is, recently, people self-select and optimize for joining Google precisely for "work-life balance." i.e. if you want to actually work and get paid for performance, you are better off joining Facebook. Google ends up with the rest of the folks who join with the expectation of low expectations.

[jubalfh]

i think you might want to read up about labour protections in germany before opining this strongly.