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South Korea went even crazier and stole their consumer electronics business. (Both in terms of government subsidies and extreme working hours. And: contrary to
by johansch 10y ago
South Korea went even crazier and stole their consumer electronics business.
(Both in terms of government subsidies and extreme working hours. And: contrary to the opinion of the united socialist workers of HN, extreme hours sometimes are sometimes actually needed in order to build something new, desirable - well before anyone else. The fact that "extreme hours" are also employed when that is not really the target does not really change things.)
- oblio 10y agoI'm not from the US and I'm definitely not socialist (had enough of that, thank you very much), but extreme hours has a specific role: crunch time. If you're in crunch time all the time, regardless of your field of work, something went terribly wrong somewhere.
- johansch 10y agoSure. And a crunch time can last 6-12 months and be effective. There are many examples of that in product development history. I can't imagine that doing it for longer than that would work though.