> Sometimes you don't have that luxury. What if your company requires an influx of new capital to be able to maintain your current staffing levels and one requi

> Sometimes you don't have that luxury. What if your company requires an influx of new capital to be able to maintain your current staffing levels and one requirement of the funding is delivering a set of features in a week? Adopting the attitude "we'll just ship a few weeks late" may result in funding not going through, everyone losing their jobs, and the company dissolving. So then the question is actually asking, "have you ever worked at a company that was two weeks away from complete failure and bankruptcy?" > Another example: production goes down Friday at 5pm. While highly stressful, this is not what a death march is.