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Comment by anon_tor_12345 | Hacker News Reader

lol @ all of the angsty responses on here.

i'm on a product team. morale is fine. what you should really be asking yourself is if you're comfortable with the WLB. most people work 50-70hrs/wk. TC is good though so you get what you pay for.

in general you're better off asking this question on blind because it's unlikely you'll get a lot of honest/revealing answers here.

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> most people work 50-70hrs/wk

Jesus. Why?

https://www.levels.fyi/

click E5 under fb

> Facebook E5 total estimate $380,320

> Uber 5A total estimate $385,469

I'm sure I must be missing something. (Disclaimer: I definitely do not do 50hr/wk at Uber)

i'm not married to FB. i'll probably jump somewhere else after i'm done vesting.

A large salary figure doesn't seem like a good reason to work what I personally consider an insane amount of hours. By all means, to each their own though.

Maybe not forever, but that kind of salary would be great to build up a house deposit. Could be worth it for a few years.

We tend to ignore the impact on our physical and mental health these working hours do. I would rather opt for lesser pay, smaller house with my health intact. Better bargain IMHO but then to each his own.

I don't know what team that guy is on, but there's plenty of us who work normal hours with pretty light on call duties. Once you factor in Bootcamp, paternity leave, paid holidays, PTO, sick leave, etc. I'm literally going to be working on a team for less than half of my first year. What's really nice is that depending on how much you're interacting with other people a good bit of the work can be shuffled around and overall it's pretty flexible. I'd rather work 50 hours a week with this kind of flexibility than 40 hours a week under a rigid 9-5 office job.

> Bootcamp

lol you're frosh. wait till your second PSC.

That's the funny part, my second PSC is probably going to be less than the minimum time due to paternity leave so really it'll wind up being my third PSC because I joined just prior to this half.

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