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You are probably a victim of Crunch Culture

Alex Antra on May 03, 2019

Crunch Culture has gotten a lot of visibility in the past few years, primarily due to the Video Game industry. However you don’t have to work in v...
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James Hickey • Edited

Nice πŸ€œπŸ€›

In my first dev job, I can remember us needing to finish up some stuff for a product demo. One night, we worked all day, ordered pizza for supper...and worked all night/morning.

That did happen from time-to-time, and I suspect it's standard for a growing product/company in the early stages.

They needed me to "build" a special report (on a web page) that just wasn't possible to do... so we ended up faking the entire thing.

The person doing the demo had to know exactly which buttons to press in order to make the "real-time" report work hahaha πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

Good times.