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Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by kareemsabri on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:09PM (#31785624)
Having immigrated from Canada to the US, and worked as a software engineer in both countries, I don't believe this is accurate.

> I can earn 100k in London and be very comfortable doing less than 40 hours a week, never working weekends, never doing crunch time, never being forced to work overtime, taking 6 weeks of vacation every year, sometimes more

This describes LOTS of engineers at big tech, just change 100k to 400k and 40 hours to 20

Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by akhmatova on Saturday June 18, 2022 @08:20AM (#31789188)
2008: everyone brags about working 90 hours a week

2022: everyone brags about working 20 hours a week