This doesn’t seem different than any other business dude exhorting his employees to do an extra grind for “the company mission” when it’s really just for his ego and profits. Grind culture exists in law, finance, sales, etc. Anywhere that employees are not paid overtime for overworking (mostly, hourly plus commission jobs might have a low base rate and not care about the extra overtime expense).
Techies are particularly vulnerable to it as they’re usually younger salaried employees who aren’t as apt about demanding a personal upside if they’re asked to sacrifice their personal lives for the company’s benefit.
This doesn’t seem different than any other business dude exhorting his employees to do an extra grind for “the company mission” when it’s really just for his ego and profits. Grind culture exists in law, finance, sales, etc. Anywhere that employees are not paid overtime for overworking (mostly, hourly plus commission jobs might have a low base rate and not care about the extra overtime expense).
Techies are particularly vulnerable to it as they’re usually younger salaried employees who aren’t as apt about demanding a personal upside if they’re asked to sacrifice their personal lives for the company’s benefit.