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Not all teams in FAANGs result in burn out or require careful through about joining. I've been at one of them for 6 years and still find my work life balance to

Not all teams in FAANGs result in burn out or require careful through about joining. I've been at one of them for 6 years and still find my work life balance to be sane. In fact I enjoy what I'm doing quite a bit because of the business space I'm working in and the quality of peers.

silicon2401 5y ago
what do you consider sane work life balance? I consider anything over 40h excessive
- notyourwork 5y ago
  Yes. Aside from on-call week when I carry a pager 24-7 for the week but I don't work outside business hours unless paged.
  - silicon2401 5y ago
    Yes what? I asked "what do you consider sane work hours?" lol.
    - notyourwork 5y ago
      Because it was obvious, we know what full time is defined as. Anything more than 40h is more than a full time job.
- jefftk 5y ago
  Another data point: I've never felt pressured to work more than 40 hours a week, and have probably averaged quite close to that over my FAANG career. Recently, with pandemic/WFH/less-to-do-outside-work, I started working some on evenings/weekends, and my manager asked me to stop because he doesn't want to have that kind of team culture.
  - notyourwork 5y ago
    +1 It can create a really toxic work culture. If I do work more its because I'm interested in a problem that I don't want to let sit till next week or the following day. In general, I try to do this discretely by not pinging people outside working hours or trying to give impression I'm working late. Working late for me is usually working through code or a design at a time when I'm caught in it and don't want to let it sit until I solve it. If this happens I'll start late next day or reduce hours following week and I make sure I call this out during standup so my team knows why I'm signing off early. It can become a snowball when one teammate sees another working and feels compelled to do same. Kudos to your manager for calling this out.

silicon2401 5y ago

what do you consider sane work life balance? I consider anything over 40h excessive

notyourwork 5y ago
Yes. Aside from on-call week when I carry a pager 24-7 for the week but I don't work outside business hours unless paged.
- silicon2401 5y ago
  Yes what? I asked "what do you consider sane work hours?" lol.
  - notyourwork 5y ago
    Because it was obvious, we know what full time is defined as. Anything more than 40h is more than a full time job.
jefftk 5y ago
Another data point: I've never felt pressured to work more than 40 hours a week, and have probably averaged quite close to that over my FAANG career. Recently, with pandemic/WFH/less-to-do-outside-work, I started working some on evenings/weekends, and my manager asked me to stop because he doesn't want to have that kind of team culture.
- notyourwork 5y ago
  +1 It can create a really toxic work culture. If I do work more its because I'm interested in a problem that I don't want to let sit till next week or the following day. In general, I try to do this discretely by not pinging people outside working hours or trying to give impression I'm working late. Working late for me is usually working through code or a design at a time when I'm caught in it and don't want to let it sit until I solve it. If this happens I'll start late next day or reduce hours following week and I make sure I call this out during standup so my team knows why I'm signing off early. It can become a snowball when one teammate sees another working and feels compelled to do same. Kudos to your manager for calling this out.