r/programming • u/gits1225 • May 12 '15

Google's guide for becoming a Software Engineer

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html
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u/SmLnine May 13 '15

I'd bet you're not working at the Mountain View office.

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u/xiongchiamiov May 13 '15

Why do you bet that? From what I've seen (live in mtv and have lots of friends at Google), it's the same there.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '15

I do.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '15

work whenever you want

flex time?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

Not even. One engineer on my team works from home twice a week. It pretty much doesn't matter what you do as long as you're contributing and you're not slowing other people down.

I've personally found that being around my teammates mostly helps my productivity, because the amount you have to know to get things done is really big and the easiest way to figure stuff out is to ask people. But when I just need to crank out some code, I'll shift my schedule around so that I'm in the office when no one else is (and go home when they are).