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Why do you have to work 90 hours a week? Why wouldn't your employer just offer a position with less hours for less money? In software the long hours have spec
by WhitneyLand 10y ago
Why do you have to work 90 hours a week? Why wouldn't your employer just offer a position with less hours for less money?
In software the long hours have specific reasons. For example we can't double throughput by doubling resources, and in startups the money is limited, etc
- viraptor 10y ago> In software the long hours have specific reasons. Yes. Bad management and artificial marketing deadlines. You can't double the throughput in some cases by doubling the resources. (in some you can) But you don't have to work in the kind of environment that expects it. I got pulled into the environment that expected long hours once. Then the manager got replaced - throughput stayed the same, people started leaving on time and were much more happy.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoYou're right those are also reasons. Unfortunately they're difficult to quantify. If there were an objective way to measure quality of management things would be vastly easier. For example if a trusted management quality metric was reading "sucks", it would be easier to leverage change.
- JBlue42 10y agoI work with architects (building not software) that pull similarly long hours (and not great salaries) and when I point out that it sounds like a mix of poor planning, a poor deal with the client, or project management / process issues it's always shot down as being a 'part of their culture' that they've gone through since university. My counterargument is that 'culture' isn't fixed and there's no reason not to strive for better and give people a chance to have lives outside work.