Do you Googlers actually work on 20% project? If so what are they?
It's a thing. But in reality it's more like your 120% project.
Do people still so then tho? If so do you just choose a random team?
Think it depends. If you know the team you may be able to work it out with them. Otherwise, sometimes teams will advertise that they are looking for a 20%-er. I built something that closely aligned with another teams domain, showed them my doc, and boom, it came together.
I worked at Google 4 years ago and we called it 120% project then too
Those that voted yes can you pm me or reply here so I can pm?
Not really a thing anymore at least in my org, you really need to push for it.
Which org?