Google's 20 Percent Time
“We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google,” founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page wrote in their IPO letter. “This empowers them to be more creative and innovative. Many of our significant advances [like AdSense and Google News] have happened in this manner.”
No one is going to hand you development opportunities on a platter; you need to seek them out proactively, with the following tips.
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