The Pingdom folks have cooked up a massive infographic of facts and figures pertaining to Google's business, technology and operations.
Google facts and figures (massive infographic)
(Thanks, Peter!)
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Right, are people still buying that “20% of your time is free for pet projects” nonsense? I have friends who work for Google, as I am sure many others here do. And for them it’s never been the case.
I’ve always interpreted “20% Time” to mean that if by some chance you have some downtime, you better be putting it to company use.
For engineers I’m sure that’s the case, but I know sales people there that don’t get any free time like that
I work at Google, you can work on 20% projects but most people don’t because they have too much to do on their main project. However many projects do start this way.