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Re:Software Engineer, Machine Learning by daly on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:47AM (#15257567)
Working these hours at Google would be stupidity. But startups are different. I've worked for a few. You basically sell your soul to try to make it succeed. If you love the idea the work hours are not the issue. Things go sour when the startup is being sold. Then everyone discovers that only a few people will make money off the effort and you get to watch. It gets toxic quickly.
Re:Software Engineer, Machine Learning by pm90 on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:10AM (#15257750)
The problem isn't that people should be forbidden from working hard on something they are passionate about. Its simply that it shouldn't be the norm. And also: that kind of work should be compensated appropriately. From your comments it seems like that is not usually the case for startups.