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this is a feature, not a bug. Companies absolutely want people with minimum outside job responsiblities, so that they can work them during the day, and pagerduty them during the night when stuff breaks.

or overwork with boat load of feature requests and bug fixes and Ops workload - this is the reason why faang's offices are so fancy, have free food, laundry, massage, and bunch of other stuff.

These fancy offices are for engineers to pull all nighters, not for tiktokers to show off in social media.

if you are 9-5 with 5 kids - you are not gonna make it in venture capital funded Silicon Valley world. 9-5 is for regular "enterprise" engineers at Initech or Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Lubbock TX



I did it for 10 years with 4 kids. Multiple startups. Very few work off hours and none did in my experience.


Did you found a startup with 4 kids, or were you an early hire, or just one of several worker bees?

Serious question, not rhetorical, in case it doesn't come across.




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