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Sounds like a trap to me - in theory, most programming jobs "don't" work Saturdays or Sundays or after 6 PM either. On paper, anyway.
by commandlinefan 5y ago
Sounds like a trap to me - in theory, most programming jobs "don't" work Saturdays or Sundays or after 6 PM either. On paper, anyway.
- rco8786 5y agoRather cynical. You're basically just assuming everything they say about the job must be a lie.
- hoseja 5y agoCorporations exploit the benefit of the doubt. It mustn't be extended to them.
- chana_masala 5y agoI'd say it's evidence based skepticism
- femto113 5y agoI'm guessing you haven't worked for Amazon.
- drunkpotato 5y agoSounds more like experienced than cynical to me. In my experience, job descriptions and even the answers you get during interviews are not so much outright lies, as aspirational fabrications you have to take with a grain of salt.
- EarlKing 5y agoHaving worked for Amazon before I'd say that's a fairly safe assumption.
- michaelcampbell 5y ago"Foresight is often mistaken as cynicism by those that do not have it."
- throwaway7033 5y agoJob descriptions are forward looking statements; the position may be entirely different. Here are some of the many possibilities: The service has poor uptime and you're on call every weekend. Schedule pressure or poor management means that you're asked to come in on Fridays "until the next release". The reduced-hours position was sponsored by a VP who has lost interest or left the company. Your direct manager has deadlines to meet and pressures you into working full-time.
- krageon 5y agoAmazon became big on lies, and in fact is in the news frequently because it continues to do so.
- dragonwriter 5y agoAssuming that Amazon is a profit-maximizing corporation that will fully exploit it's human resources to the extent possible, and that forward-looking but non-binding statements cannot be relied on to limit that might be called cynicism but to me it looks a lot like realism.
- romanovcode 5y agoWho works on Fridays anyway?
- ipaddr 5y agoI work harder than ever on Fridays. Mondays I get nothing done.
- robbrown451 5y agoI know that's the popular cynical view, but I'd think with such a position (especially given that it was advertised as reduced hours), there would be 20% lower expectations as to what you'll accomplish. In other words, they'd expect it would take five weeks for you to do what someone else can do in four. I mean, that's all they have to determine/enforce how much you time you put in currently... general expectations. Some people say you work the hours needed to get the job done, but that doesn't really make sense. Somehow the work the company needs to get accomplished gets divided up and distributed to employees. And ultimately you've got to think of how much is reasonable to accomplish. Here, that expectation of reasonableness is going to get reduced by about 20% if they are hired to work that many less hours.
- scarby2 5y agothere have been many studies that show that people who consistently work less hours are more productive per hour. generally going from 40 hours to 32 hours i'd be surprised if the difference in productivity was more than 5-10% (it may even be positive).
- SkyPuncher 5y agoBesides being a founder, I've never had a programming job that's required such outside of mostly rare incident responses.