Indeed. You'd think Google would test for how well people will cope with boredom, rather than their bait-and-switch interviews that make it seem like you'll be solving l33tcode every evening.
You think people work on a single issue at a time?
Maybe at Google they can afford that, where I worked at some point I was working 2 or 3 projects switching between issues. Of course all projects were the same tech and mostly the same setup, but business logic and tasks were different.
If I have to wait 2-3 hours I have code to review, bug fixes in different places to implement. Even on a single project if you wait 2 hours till your code lands test env and have nothing else to do someone is mismanaging the process.
