Work smarter not harder. Your brain should be sweating not your fingers.
I worked at a Big Corp, and would often spend the day surfing or training for ironmen, and coding at the cafe shop between sessions.
My reviews came back nearly the top ranking consistently. My “secret” if anything was jumping into the hardest technical problem available to me and taking it on largely myself.
The folks that were promoted faster were the ones that put out business critical fires and spent 80 hour weeks debugging customer issues. Which was well deserved imho.
Google is a huge company, with tons of opportunity. Your risk adjusted return there is probably higher than YC. If you can’t figure out how to hit homeruns at Google you are likely to fail everywhere else.
Your managers job is to tell you what you need to do to become a “critical” employee that’s on the fast promotion track.
I worked at a Big Corp, and would often spend the day surfing or training for ironmen, and coding at the cafe shop between sessions.
My reviews came back nearly the top ranking consistently. My “secret” if anything was jumping into the hardest technical problem available to me and taking it on largely myself.
The folks that were promoted faster were the ones that put out business critical fires and spent 80 hour weeks debugging customer issues. Which was well deserved imho.
Google is a huge company, with tons of opportunity. Your risk adjusted return there is probably higher than YC. If you can’t figure out how to hit homeruns at Google you are likely to fail everywhere else.
Your managers job is to tell you what you need to do to become a “critical” employee that’s on the fast promotion track.