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IME your description of twenty-somethings as cannon fodder is more common on Wall Street and at IT consulting firms than Silicon Valley. For example, everythin

IME your description of twenty-somethings as cannon fodder is more common on Wall Street and at IT consulting firms than Silicon Valley. For example, everything I've read is that Facebook does not overwork their employees in the course of normal business. http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Inc-company/What-are-the-average-working-hours-per-day-for-a-Facebook-engineer http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Inc-company/What-are-the-avera... In the very early days of a startup (< 50 employees), people often work crazy hours. But everything I've seen suggests that once you start to scale, crazy hours are less common except when deadlines loom.

paulhauggis 14y ago
"more common on Wall Street" It's common with both. "For example, everything I've read is that Facebook does not overwork their employees in the course of normal business." This isn't what I've heard at all..from people working there now. These companies don't say you are required to work past 40 hours. However, it's part of the culture. This is most likely because they hire right out of college and the employees have no obligations, which allow them to make work their life.