Only an idiot works 80 hours and especially for someone else’s s company and especially if it’s a startup.
I worked 80 hour weeks to deliver a platform for a hedge fund,then they fired me
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#12Not to slight the author, but Rust seems like quite a hard language to learn on the job.
I thought the same thing. Either he means that he learned the very finer parts of Rust on the job but knew it well to begin with. OR. He was really doing 40 hours of work and 40 hours of Rust learning per week. Which is fine too, as he delivered.
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#13Welcome to capitalism! Enjoy your stay!
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#14I've worked for software company which sold products to hedge funds. And I've also done consulting work for big private equity firm. Both experiences taught me never to actually be employed by such companies. You will be disrespected.
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#15It sounds like they were never given written confirmation for the bonuses. How likely are you to face penalties if you put a "time bomb" in a codebase like this? Something with plausible deniability like let's say like an authentication script that you have to run every 30 days or the program stops working for "security reasons". Also you're the only one who knows where the script is and how to run it.
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#16To play devils advocate, what we don't know from the story is how effective the playform was. 48 hours after release he was fired, possibly because it was terrible.
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#17Count yourself lucky that you got out with your liberty. It's not unheard of for quants that try to leave to be criminally prosecuted and placed in isolated incarceration.
Getting fired sounds pretty good, no?
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#19It sounds like they were never given written confirmation for the bonuses. How likely are you to face penalties if you put a "time bomb" in a codebase like this? Something with plausible deniability like let's say like an authentication script that you have to run every 30 days or the program stops working for "security reasons". Also you're the only one who knows where the script is and how to run it.
No.
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#20i keep saying it to people at work who work extra hard or spit some positive corporate propagada --- as an employee you are just a fucking number,,,and nobody gives two fucks about u