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		cblum on May 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Does Google “20% time” still exist? > now the place is filling up with walking calculators - brilliant at arithmetic but no lateral thinking. That was exactly the impression my interviewers left on me when I interviewed there a couple years ago.

jeffjose on May 13, 2019 [–]

I take it you are a SWE. There's plenty of non-SWE folks at Google FWIW.

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