If you’re a boss, Devon may be your worst nightmare. The software engineer is supposed to spend his days typically writing code for Google’s tools and products. It sounds like laborious work, but he says he only works one hour per day.
Devon, a pseudonym Fortune is using to protect his privacy, says he begins his week writing code for “a decent part” of any given assignment before sending it off to his manager. That “basically guarantees” him smooth sailing for the rest of the week. He says he typically wakes up around 9 a.m. to shower and make breakfast before working until 11 a.m. or noon, at which point he switches to working on his start-up until 9 or 10 p.m. (Fortune reviewed time-stamped screenshots showing the extent of start-up work that Devon performed during his workday.)
