[Stratoscope]

https://archive.is/PEH69

Last year a company reached out to me about an interesting job on their Developer Experience team. What the company is building is super interesting, and DevEx is something I love and am good at.

In our second conversation, the hiring manager mentioned that they all work ten hours a day, five days a week, in the office. I guess you could call it a 975 schedule.

I don't think of myself as "old", but that kind of in-office schedule sounded grueling. So I declined continuing with further interviews.

A 996 schedule sounds like a great way to say, "older developers need not apply."

[apical_dendrite]

I'll second this. An external recruiter was under the (incorrect) impression that we are a 996 company. We found out because she said that no senior people she talked to were willing to work those hours.

Ultimately you can make a lot of short-term progress with 23-year-olds who are willing to live 5 minutes away from the office, have no life outside of work, and work 72 hour weeks. But you also end up with a product that was built by people who have no idea what they're doing.