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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by MentallyRetired on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @09:59PM (#21520823)
OP on the thread and actually I'm a former disney dev for disneyworld.com. It's a sweat shop. They had me working 100 hours a week the first 4 months I was there. They would order me food so I wouldnt have to leave my desk. Many times I slept under it.

Then I had 6 months of pretty normal hours working on maintenance, then I went back on another project and they had me working 60 - 80 hours (with some 40 and some 100 sprinkled in) for 18 months straight before we finished the project and I bailed.

Great resume builder but be prepared to put in hours.

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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by neuronic on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:54AM (#21522208)
> They would order me food so I wouldnt have to leave my desk. Many times I slept under it.

Is this work culture the norm in the US? I audibly said "wtf" just now, sitting at my work desk.

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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by blaser-waffle on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:53AM (#21526245)
The US has workers who, on average, work longer hours than anywhere else in the world. Salaries, esp. in STEM, and esp. on the mid-to-high-end, are also wayyy higher than anywhere else.

If you want to make that fat US developer salary be ready to put in the work. Presumably Disney has the money to throw at you via salary... but they're going to get their money's worth.

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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by neuronic on Friday November 15, 2019 @09:20AM (#21544974)
But aren't these high salaries spent on high living costs as well? Presumably, the places where you make a lot of dev money are also expensive to live at, no?
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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by mcv on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:24AM (#21522362)
I often see these kind of bizarre reports about destructive US work culture. I would flat out refuse and probably get fired real quick.

It's a bad way to run a company, and if this is how they plan to run Disney+, it's going to be a disaster.

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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by Domenic_S on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:26PM (#21531409)
No, it is absolutely not the norm.
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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by jorblumesea on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:05AM (#21521296)
> Great resume builder

Compared to any big 4 or FAANG though? You can work at MS and pull 40 hour weeks or AMZN/FB with 60. Pays better, looks better.

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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by jhall1468 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:08AM (#21521750)
You can easily work 40 at tons of Amazon teams. AWS and parts of retail have the "crack the whip" culture, but it's not as bad as people think it is.
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