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1002 points genericlemon24 | 3 comments | 06 Sep 25 13:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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didip ◴[06 Sep 25 14:13 UTC] No.45149420[source]▶
996 as an employee, especially for companies that don’t offer fast growing stocks, is a super bad deal.

996 for a business owner or top exec at a big company? It’s the norm. And the risk-reward makes sense to them.

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manoDev ◴[06 Sep 25 14:28 UTC] No.45149568[source]▶
> 996 for a business owner or top exec at a big company? It’s the norm. And the risk-reward makes sense to them.

It's bad anyway. These people burnout and start making dumb moves to bail out sooner.

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1. gyomu ◴[06 Sep 25 15:06 UTC] No.45149926[source]▶
Heh, at that level the job is just meetings and emails. You can do 996 of meetings and emails for a few millions a year without burning out.

Actual craft tasks like writing code tho? Definitely a recipe for burnout and shittier output, yep.

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2. NaomiLehman ◴[06 Sep 25 16:01 UTC] No.45150429[source]▶
I burned out after a year and a half of doing that. Not worth it. And after a certain NW, what's the difference? How much money do you need?
3. herval ◴[06 Sep 25 16:42 UTC] No.45150796[source]▶
As someone who had to 996 as a coder and as a manager, I can guarantee you the burnout is MUCH faster on the latter. A 996 schedule of zoom calls is straight up torture. I could feel myself getting dumber after a few months.

As a coder, you can accommodate downtimes on that schedule. You also see the result of your work (even code compiling is a dopamine hit). None of that exists if you’re meeting customers and investors - you’re playing the odds all day long and have to be 100% on all the time.