I have heard rumors that every engineer has to submit a product or something like that and they release most of them for some reason but with the intention of killing it. I can’t remember why, but it was like kinda slimy reasoning. 2 ex Googlers exposed it a while back I think. I really wish I knew where that was because it was interesting and really explained a lot…
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Google used to allow employees to spend 20% of their work day working on other things, side projects, their own projects, etc.