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I work for a tech company that promotes internally quite well in recent years. But they also only want to hire senior, principal and lead level engineers to dev
by clnq 4y ago
I work for a tech company that promotes internally quite well in recent years. But they also only want to hire senior, principal and lead level engineers to develop a mature workforce. Unfortunately, they fail to attract enough talent to replace attrition, which is high due to increasingly paltry employee numbers. And all in all, while the promotion-to-hiring ratio is good, there is too little hiring to keep employees from working 70-100 hour weeks. I am leaving, too, even if I was promised a promotion within months. I suppose the moral of the story is that balance is good, but hiring also must happen to replace attrition.
- mr_toad 4y ago> increasingly poultry employee numbers I think you mean paltry. Although I have seen employees who flap about, squawk a lot and shit all over everything, so perhaps poultry is apt.
- clnq 4y agoOops! Thanks for the correction and a good laugh.
- neilv 4y ago70 hrs/wk is for a rare work emergency. 100 hrs/wk will send someone to the Emergency Room.
- clnq 4y agoYes, it does generally lead to ER (particularly for stress symptoms being confused for something serious) now and then.
- neilv 4y agoStress can also cause serious permanent damage, not only transient symptoms that might be mistaken for something else. If I see a colleague who's too stressed, I'll impress upon everyone the importance of correcting that.
- clnq 4y agoYes, that's true as well. Unfortunately, there are certain industries like AAA games, TV and movies where ambitious people are generally exploited through under-resourcing. Crunch is relatively normal, and it does make good economic sense for the shareholders in terms of ROI. Recently, many people have been leaving these industries because the health/ambition trade-off doesn't make sense for them anymore. It doesn't for me as well, and I'm leaving too. A lot of good institutional knowledge is lost this way. It probably accounts for the recent decrease in quality and delays of big AAA games.