Re:Ask HN: What are the typical work hours in Silicon Valley?
by algaeontoast on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:09AM
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I worked at a small startup in Santa Clara for about a year. The team was small and generally a bit older than me (35-37 and married).
The team was expected to generally work well beyond "9 to 5" and work / be available for calls on weekends.
Long story short, I no longer work there. As a young developer I did learn a lot though.
EDIT -
In hindsight, I'd worked at three startups in college prior to this job (in Austin and Boston) and I think it boiled down to my boss being an incredibly smart well intentioned guy, but he just couldn't manage people nearly as well. I was mostly turned off when we'd work so hard that we'd miss possible problems or build features we didn't need that could've been avoided by simply taking a step back and maybe thinking about it for an extra day.
The team was expected to generally work well beyond "9 to 5" and work / be available for calls on weekends.
Long story short, I no longer work there. As a young developer I did learn a lot though.
EDIT -
In hindsight, I'd worked at three startups in college prior to this job (in Austin and Boston) and I think it boiled down to my boss being an incredibly smart well intentioned guy, but he just couldn't manage people nearly as well. I was mostly turned off when we'd work so hard that we'd miss possible problems or build features we didn't need that could've been avoided by simply taking a step back and maybe thinking about it for an extra day.