Leadership at Duolingo promotes innovation by testing new initiatives, such as hackathons and productivity frameworks, which have led to both successes and failures. Most recently, the owl company took a swing at Google’s “20% time” policy and failed. We explore why this was the case, what they learned from it, and what has worked better for the company since! #programmer #softwaredeveloper #softwareengineer #coding #career #tech #duolingo #google #googledeveloper #devpath
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