FWIW, Sheryl Sandberg also leaves work at 5:30pm to spend time with her kids - strange that something she's been talking about for some time (before Bret left F

FWIW, Sheryl Sandberg also leaves work at 5:30pm to spend time with her kids - strange that something she's been talking about for some time (before Bret left Facebook, even) isn't mentioned. The Facebook hackathons used to start at like 6pm with the implicit expectation that one worked through the night (and weren't expected to work the next day), but these days they start during the day (the next one is 9:30am). There's still time to work all-night if that's your thing, though. One thing I noticed at a previous hackathon was one of our engineering VPs showing their kids around. I've seen a few parents doing that - often their spouse will bring their kids to visit for dinner and to spend some time, sometimes they go back together, or the kids and spouse heading home for bedtime. Not sure if that's a "this is how I get through this horrible expectation people have of me" or "this is how I blend these two parts of my life that I value", but I'm hopeful it is the latter.