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Host here. Son's comparisons between the work culture as a dev in various countries is pretty interesting. Most people don't end up working across as many count
by adamgordonbell 4y ago
Host here. Son's comparisons between the work culture as a dev in various countries is pretty interesting. Most people don't end up working across as many countries in as short of time.
996! When I went over there, everybody told me about 996. You work from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM six days a week, so Monday to Saturday and that’s pretty much the life.
Also napping in the day seems more acceptable in Asia:
Over there inside the office it’s very common for you to see beds, even camping tents.
Yeah, no, seriously. In Alibaba, in the hallway, you would be able to find several camping tents, gender-separated so that folks can go to sleep, not at night, but middle of the day after lunch. Sleeping in Asia is quite common. People stay over at the campus all the time.
- nequo 4y agoSon’s account of Alibaba’s tech stack (custom Java, custom git etc.) was very interesting, too. Would love to hear more about it.
- adamgordonbell 4y agoFor sure! The jvm is on github, as Dragonswell. It's possible that the custom git and mysql as proprietary and Ali specific.