As a startup founder, "being swamped" is bad. As an employee, "being swamped" might be amazing: If your skills are so critical to the company's success that m

As a startup founder, "being swamped" is bad. As an employee, "being swamped" might be amazing: If your skills are so critical to the company's success that management has features wait for your high-quality attention rather than letting a less senior colleague work on it, that basically just means that you get a rockstar salary and the freedom to write your own employment contract. I get why having "swamped employees" is disliked by the company, though. It drives up salaries.