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Investment banking/PE, management consulting, and especially US startup culture all seem to tout similar hours during busy seasons or impending product launches
by otoburb 10y ago
Investment banking/PE, management consulting, and especially US startup culture all seem to tout similar hours during busy seasons or impending product launches (similar to programming death marches).
Although more extreme, is this really much different from Google, Facebook, Apple or other SV/NY firms offering "perks" designed to make your extended office existence more tolerable?
- st3v3r 10y agoYES! I've never heard of one of those shipping a whole team off, during the holidays, and telling them they can't leave until a stupid fucking app is done. Read that again. It was not a vital piece of infrastructure, or an important breakthrough for science. It was a stupid fucking chat app. For that, these people were held and denied the ability to celebrate a holiday.
- argonaut 10y agoIB/management consulting are paying you $100k+ at the entry level and $200k-$1M+ at higher ranks. PE is paying you $300k to multi millions. All three professions are extremely high status professions. Lets just say we are not comparing the same things. Goog/Face/App/Soft are offering you completely voluntary perks. You are free to not eat dinner at Google and go home. In fact, you can just eat dinner at Google and then go home immediately. Or even grab takeout at the cafeteria on the way to your car! Lets just say we are not comparing the same things.