S.F. tech founder says 84-hour workweek approach is ‘because I’m San Franciscan’
S.F. tech founder says 84-hour workweek approach is ‘because I’m San Franciscan’
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So that's the equivalent of 60k-100k at a job where you can work normal hours. I could see this maybe if he was paying more than twice the market rate for more than twice the normal amount of work, but he's not. Not even close.
Thats below market for a 40hr week in San Francisco for a software dev. From levels.fyi, which allows people to confirm their employment anonymously:
Town is wildly overpriced, and hes paying about 1/4th what he should be for 84 hrs/week.
And people wonder why I don't move to work at these big tech hubs. I have lots of tech jobs in my area and most of them expect normal hours. As it turns out, I rarely work more than 40 hours, and most weeks I'm around 35.
This isn't the only guy hiring in SF. By and large the pay seems really good for below average effort.
Don’t take this idiot’s little company as the norm for the area. San Francisco scene is pretty chill.
Its also San Fran, where you'll lose all that money on COL.
If you get FAANG-tier money in SF, you don't lose it all to CoL. You definitely make it out ahead.
It’s important to recognize that this is a tiny little company.
The founder can pick up lunch for everyone. So we’re talking what, 8 people?
There are 8 people out there who have nothing in their lives except for work and want their job to feel like a life. They get some kind of thrill from the intensity and they have probably been sold a dream about what their stock options will be worth when the company makes it big on the AI boom. They’re young, single, socially orthogonal people and their home lives were probably desolate and depressing before they took this job. The job gives them a place they can always go and find other people, where they have something to do. I’m not excusing the horrible WLB but I can easily imagine a small number of people who go for this. We just have to remember how miserable much of humanity are.
We don’t have to generalize about capitalism, San Francisco, tech, or anything else from this guy. Not that you were but others ITT certainly are.
84 fucking hours. If I worked 12 hours a day, every day, I wouldn't hit 84 hours unless I literally never had a single day off! That dude can eat my entire ass...
The fact that he ever gets through that interview without the candidate laughing themself right out of his office is just baffling.