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People always mention working 60-70 hours and I really can’t imagine what that would look like minute to minute. For example I worked at a startup with fairly bad WLB, but it was typically because I had to run some test process due the next day (as in the client expected it) and spent multiple nights up till even 2am doing it till it worked. Generally tho, in terms of a sprints planned work I think it could fit into a focused 40-45 hours. Excessive meetings would make this difficult but then I had an excuse to push work over to next sprint. Overall, most of the 996 experiences there were due to needing to deliver a test/demo to a client the next day. They happened maybe monthly. Otherwise the typical day was maybe 9-6. Right now I have worked late or on weekends but only because I’m enjoying it. If I do that I can easily take a couple days during the week very chill. There’s never any situation where I have something due next day and need to get it done. Can anyone describe what a day/week looks life for really bad WLB?
If you work on a part central to company profitable, (eg ads at meta, M&A in IB) that’s where most of the shit wlb is
But thats also where the fastest growth is
What do you mean by growth exactly?
Alternatively, it could be intentionally planning work for 60 hours, or underestimating the amount of work but still needing to complete it by the deadline anyways.
Back to back meeting until 4 but still need to Deliver time sensitive green field projects/initiatives by next month. And btw you are only allocated 2 other SDEs to complete a planned out 200 hours worth of dev work task
I see so it sounds like meetings are what can really mess up WLB? That would lo line up with my startup job
Generally, it would look like a lot of meetings, but you still need to complete the same amount of work (no excuses) so you work OT to complete it.