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by ceras 4157 days ago
Google is such a big company you will find huge variety between teams. I have not personally worked on a team at Google that expected overtime (all of mine chose to cut or scale back features rather than increase hours when things got tight), but I have heard of others who have.
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But how do you manage scope and deliverables on a team that doesn't occasionally require overtime?
You ship later or you scale back the scope to something manageable.
Do you work at google?
Yes. As I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8938244, I'm an engineer on Google Compute Engine.

I talked about how my team at Google, specifically, handles this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941915

Thank you for taking the time to write that up. Now I have so many questions :)