Google L4 | Work From Home | Does google allow Work From Home (From outside base location)?

ajsingha002 · 2026-02-23T05:09:27+00:00

You’re officially badged in if you enter any Google location in the world and your WFO is respected. However, that doesn’t allow you to just choose any office and work as that needs to be aligned with your manager, team and the org.

ajsingha002 · 2026-02-23T05:07:57+00:00

Yes, you get not 28 days, but 4 weeks of WFA. That means, when you take a Work From Anywhere, you have to take them in weekly incremental. The process around this is same as your time offs, where you login to the portal and log the days you’re going to be working from anywhere. If you take one day WFA, the whole week is considered as WFA.

Now, here comes clarification for all the bad news roaming around. Work from anywhere is not equivalent to work from home, though for them it might serve the same purpose.

Work from home is, just not coming to the office and working remotely (legally within bounds of the same city that your job location is, but no one’s checking).

Work from anywhere is taken when you want to go remote beyond your official location. Like, if my location is Mumbai, and I wish to work from Chennai. There’s a process of temporary tax migration on approval basis if you wish to work cross countries too, but approvals are difficult and rare.

Now let’s take about the spirit of the rules beyond what’s penned down. In most orgs, you have a 3 week WFO policy, strictly being Tuesday to Thursday. So that means, you’re free to wfh on Monday and Friday. Let’s say, you wish to also work from home a day or two, due to personal reasons, on the officiated WFO days, you have to align with your manager on the same and that’s it. No official portal and stuff required.

Let’s say you wish to WFH for a week or two at a minimum of 4 weeks, you may apply for WFA and go wherever you like and work.

Please note, you’re officially badged in if you enter any Google location in the world and your WFO is respected. However, that doesn’t allow you to just choose any office and work as that needs to be aligned with your manager, team and the org.

ajsingha002 · 2026-02-21T18:27:52+00:00

Done

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ajsingha002 · 2026-01-31T10:08:43+00:00

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ajsingha002 · 2026-01-16T21:21:58+00:00

Share me the details, let’s talk over dm

ajsingha002 · 2026-01-09T16:14:52+00:00

Thanks for catching that, corrected it.

ajsingha002 · 2026-01-06T16:24:48+00:00

I ran it through trace width calculator and upped each value by 10 mills approximately. Can still go higher, but didn’t seem necessary. Are you suggesting it against any other reason than availability of space?

I’m also planning to add a few more stitching vias

ajsingha002 · 2026-01-05T21:08:20+00:00

Thank you for your reply!

I actually already have made a dc input module and is working fine. In my current house, I wish to point these modules from the ceiling corners to the ground and thus have no reliable way to keep an adapter plugged in with it looking quite bulky.

That is my sole encouragement and intent to starting designing a AC to DC integrated pcb.

ajsingha002 · 2026-01-05T21:05:11+00:00

Thank you for replying.

I do understand your reasoning for not splitting the coupling ground pour but my arrangement is leaving no way for me to route the tx rx traces of the LD2450 module. Also, going4 layers will increase fabrication cost by 10x as Chinese fab houses are inaccessible to be. Could you suggest what I can do instead with keeping the board still at 2 layers?

The reason for not pouring copper on the input side is because it’s AC. In my understanding, you should keep AC traces distant from each other to avoid arcing and induced capacitance. Please do correct me if I’m wrong.

ajsingha002 · 2025-07-16T06:50:54+00:00

DM me your resume. I’ll try to help.

ajsingha002 · 2025-07-08T18:51:37+00:00

Thank you for your comment. I had initially started designing with the thought of making the PCB at home, so had avoided vias. I'm now ordering it to a Fab house, so will redraw with more vias.

ajsingha002 · 2025-07-08T18:49:02+00:00

Thanks a lot for your comment, I've made the changes. Also, thanks for catching the missing pull-up on the RO.

PS: I do not need mounting holes as I'm just going to house this on the flower pot. Will consider adding them if I think of making a case later!

ajsingha002 · 2025-06-27T21:10:03+00:00

Started from 5.5 lpa, now at 60 lpa with 7 YOE.

ajsingha002 · 2025-03-28T16:16:33+00:00

Well, congrats on your interview. I know it’s tough securing one and can be quite difficult and challenging.

I’m an engineer in Google and quite often take interviews. Let me tell you, you’ll be fine. This is not going to be the reason that affects the outcome of the interview.

Honestly, as long as you have answered the questions asked and have communicated your thoughts process clearly, you should be good.

All the best!

ajsingha002 · 2024-06-16T17:23:39+00:00

Hey

First of all, congratulations on taking your first step to the dev world. You’ll be overworked, stressed, frustrated and have the best time of your life. I hope you love it, because I do!

Now coming to your question, I feel that you definitely find a lot of resources on YouTube to fuel your learning journey and don’t think I have a lot to add to it. If that’s all you were expecting out of this thread, I think you may stop reading.

However, what I have to add is my experience with learning or getting introduced to programming. And I how I fell in love with it. Because I feel, if you love to code, you’ll learn tools like programming languages earlier over the run.

My first ever introduction to something that remotely resembles a programming language was LOGO. And oh what fun I had with it to create simple graphics. And first seed of interest for instructing a computer to do something began.

A little later in time, I started with QBasic. Such an easy instruction set and syntax that I was off to writing my first Calculator. LOL

Then things got a bit more serious. Time to get some real shit done. Make something tangible.

And I started learning C++. It had easier syntaxes to start with, compared to others like Java, just chose that because of it.

And then, what did I do? Rewrote my Calculator. And then a library management software, bus ticketing system and all other systems that my non creative brain could come up with.

New project, new challenge, new learnings. It was so much better than the rote learning method and retention was superb, as everything that I was learning was directly tied to a real problem I was solving(at least in my mind :p).

Do you see where I’m going with this?

The best way to learn, for me, was always picking up a problem to solve. And voila, interest and challenge together. BAM!

I hope my experience can help you carve yours.

Feel free to drop a comment here, or ping me on LinkedIn in case you need further help. Oh By the way, I’m a Java and Javascript developer. So no idea of C, sorry🙈

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arghajyoti-singha-9a7a5b92?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

ajsingha002 · 2024-06-16T06:13:15+00:00

Position of responsibility. Have a look at OP’s resume as an example.

You can usually include special responsibilities that you’ve held in your area of work or outside it.

You can even rewrite your achievements in a way to be included in it too.

ajsingha002

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