Ive been looking to hop to a company with better WLB, here is what I found in my research. I am posting this in case it is useful to others on job market. Best wlb, <30 hours a week is normal: Capital One Bloomberg Indeed Adobe Microsoft Atlassian Salesforce Nexient Intel 3M Schwab Amex Visa Mastercard Workday Autodesk Cisco Optum Zillow Booking Good wlb, <40 hours a week is normal: Airbnb Dropbox Nvidia Lyft Google Square Two Sigma DRW Roblox LinkedIn Chime Snowflake Nordstrom Roku Spotify Intuit Vmware Datadog Servicenow Nextdoor Splunk Upstart IBM Pinterest Upstart Walmart Bad wlb, 40-50 hour weeks is common: Amazon Databricks Meta Uber Netflix Brex Jane Street IMC HRT Apple Palantir Qualtrics Snap Instacart Robinhood Palo Alto Networks OCI Coinbase Slavery tier, no life outside of work expected: Stripe Citadel Tiktok SpaceX Tesla Twitter Cruise Doordash Rubrik Cohesity Abbott Rippling Accurate or no? Please suggest improvements and I will add.
WLB means supply is larger than need, and could result in relatively larger layoffs compared to very lean and strong teams. Twitter is example since Elon knows the rest 50% have large room to push. If they work 30h, yes they can be pushed to work 60h to survive. But if they already work 60h, no room to push.
Move Google to <30
Lol, not anymore
I think about 30% do <30hrs another 30% between there and 40hrs and then the rest work "normal" job hours. There is some small try hard segment that probably does 50+ hours but never met one of them
What about Apple, Cruise, Roblox and Splunk?
I've read that apple is bad, cruise is slavery, Roblox is good
roblox has a few teams coasting.
add Jane street and HRT and imc to bad tier and two sigma and drw to good tier
I think five rings, akuna, optiver, de shaw is between bad/slave tier? none of them have citadel's reputation tho
Idk about the others but optiver has great wlb, at least as SWE. Im sure some of the ones you've mentioned are the same. Only traders work long hours, swe are around 40h/w on average.
Add nexient to <30 GREAT WLB
Oracle?
Lol. Salesforce is top tier. Definitely work less than Microsoft or Google
Can confirm. Nothing beats Salesforce WLB
Try me
Snap is more than 40
Qualtrics is 40-50
You forgot the slaves at SpaceX.
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We make parts for SpaceX, and we don’t understand why they work so many hours lol