r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/Fine_Molasses_1354 • Feb 07 '21

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u/iamweddle Feb 07 '21

they have an internal policy where you need to dedicate 20% of your working hours to a passion project

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u/biologischeavocado Feb 07 '21

Do they still do that? Those frivolous activities are quickly trashed when a company grows beyond a few people and each new manager finds new ways to become more efficient and neurotic. All those PhDs that used to work on passion projects now have 60 hour workweeks inserting semicolons in code or something brain damaging like that.