Marissa Mayer reveals how to work 130 hours a week...

Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo and Google’s 20^th employee and first female engineer, has revealed how she worked 130 hour weeks.

Speaking to Bloomberg Businessweek about her time at Google, she said: “The other piece that gets overlooked in the Google story is the value of hard work. When reporters write about Google, they write about it as if it was inevitable. The actual experience was more like, ‘Could you work 130 hours in a week?’

“The answer is yes, if you’re strategic about when you sleep, when you shower, and how often you go to the bathroom. The nap rooms at Google were there because it was safer to stay in the office than walk to your car at 3am. For my first five years, I did at least one all-nighter a week, except when I was on vacation—and the vacations were few and far between.”

She also spoke about having her son when she first joined Yahoo, and then having her twins while the company was going through a proxy fight.