If you have a good EM, they should ask, when can you get this finished by? If it doesn’t align with the deadline, the EM can then add other teammates to help b

If you have a good EM, they should ask, when can you get this finished by? If it doesn’t align with the deadline, the EM can then add other teammates to help balance the work or assign the entire project to someone else. It’s a myth that these companies push you to burn out, it’s just we’re bad at estimating our own commitments. So a good EM will also take your deadline and add buffers to it when delivering their own schedule upwards. The benefit to being more productive isn’t always about packing more work into a day. It’s also a skill to improve the amount of time you’re not working by giving you more free time.