Thursday, March 22, 2007

TROUBLE IN PARADISE: Google's second-class citizens - Valleywag:

Valleywag Exclusive-1-3Picture 84No doubt the Googleplex in Mountain View, lavishly equipped with massage chairs and snack rooms, is an earthly paradise, at least for engineers who joined early enough to benefit from the company's public offering. Fortune named the search engine giant the best employer in the US, so it must be true. But try telling that to those employees who will on April 1st be recategorized as hourly workers; ordered to take at least 30 minutes off for lunch so that they don't rack up billable time while grabbing a sandwich in their cubicle; and made to get approval for expensive overtime. What?

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