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Having worked at a company where the culture changed over time to the point where work began to completely drown out having a personal life, the attitude at Sur
by mech4bg 14y ago
Having worked at a company where the culture changed over time to the point where work began to completely drown out having a personal life, the attitude at SurveyMonkey is incredibly refreshing.
There's a lot to be said for a great work ethic and productive work culture, but it doesn't have to come at the expense of having a home life. I like that Dave Goldberg mentions family obligations - at my previous job I would basically not have seen my daughter during the week. That is no way to live.
- hkmurakami 14y agoIMO Culture starts at the top. What was the CEO like at said former employer of yours? Did he lead the charge in assuming a more Spartan work schedule?
- mech4bg 14y agoAnyone from middle-management up escaped the changes, which didn't help morale.
- hkmurakami 14y agoSeems like the middle-managers were where the chian really broke and things were allowed to spiral out of control, and on conjunction, the top brass didn't step in to revert things to sanity. :(
- tptacek 14y agoI think it's immoral to burn through employees when they have employee-typical equity shares and your business model is still speculative. Startups often get away with this because they're staffed by 20somethings who either don't have any better place to be on a Thursday night than in front of their giant monitor, or they value being able to get in at 1:00PM (or to randomly take a day off to go rock climbing) more than they value having a predictable schedule that permits a home life. That's fine (except for the bit about startup employee equity upside) for young startup employees, but it's also easy to see how it creates an environment that (probably pointlessly) discriminates against people that have families.