The Evolution of 20% at Google

It’s important to remember not to “equate fun with money”, especially when you have to do repetitive and boring things that aren’t fun and don’t get you more money. 

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SHOW NOTES:

• Google CEO demands higher employee productivity
• Google asks employees to find 20% more productivity(“Simplicity Sprints”)
• Amazon builds internal team to keep developers from being bored

SOMETIMES THINGS GROW AND IT’S FUN

We’re hiring! Launches! Everyone is a rock-star! Nobody cares about accountability during the good times, because growth hides all the flaws.

SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENT

• Google added 25k people per year (2019-2021)
  • Do less hiring (less interviews, less new hire-stuff, less “where is?”)
  • Don’t put the burden on the employees to fix leadership ambitions
• Google “Simplicity Sprints”
• Amazon “Amazon Software Builder Experience” (ASBX)
• 20% more productive
• 33% do repetitive work
• Is this good or bad for the concept of Platform Engineering

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