> Several informants described great software engineers as hardworking: willing to work more than 8 hours days to deliver the product. This typically meant work

> Several informants described great software engineers as hardworking: willing to work more than 8 hours days to deliver the product. This typically meant working longer days, during weekends, and/or during other free time in order to accomplish goals. Informants believed that, at a minimum, software engineers needed to be willing to work beyond normal hours immediately prior to ship dates in order for the team to successfully deliver the product What I'm getting from this is that Microsoft is a terrible place to work. Schedule failure is a management fuckup. Expecting the line engineers to fix it is completely backwards.