[ceras]

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.

[jshen]

But how do you manage scope and deliverables on a team that doesn't occasionally require overtime?

[jsolson]

You ship later or you scale back the scope to something manageable.

[jshen]

Do you work at google?

[jsolson]

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

[jshen]

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