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Someone in the article's comments asked about working part time and the author responded "veterinary academia doesn’t really understand <1.0 FTE." Is the same true of FAANG-ish companies? Can you (officially) work part time in a big tech job?

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In my experience large companies reserve part time employment for valued contributors with long tenure- usually they have title like principal or fellow, and contribute in ways that cannot be hired for.

In my experience you have to be very special and important to the company to earn a part time position like this. You definitely won't start out in a part time capacity.

Strictly the answer is yes with the more truthful answer being it depends on your manager.

The easiest way is probably being in a country that requires part time to be offered.

The trick to asking something like this is to do it at interview time.

Before you start working somewhere you can ask for all sorts of nonstandard things.

Not sure about bigger tech, but I did a 4 day week for a bit and I'd shift the weekends, so I'd have a 4 day weekend then a day weekend then a 4, with 4 days of work between.

Big tech hire a lot of part time workers.

They scrub the toilets, serve the food, mow the campus lawns and classify pictures for the ai.

You can and many do, although this tends to be reserved for more senior engineers. Obviously a pay cut is involved.

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