There’s more to caring than working long hours
<p>I came across <a href="https://twitter.com/castillo__io/status/1656668605210320904" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a tweet</a> by former Netflix engineer Alex Castillo that reflects on the value of caring at work.</p>
<p>Alex recounts how the team he had just joined at the streaming giant discovered a broken legacy app on a Friday and managed to fix everything by the following Monday.</p>
<p>The tweet attributes the quick turnaround to how much the people involved “<em>cared</em>.” But to me, the picture that emerges is one of unsustainable overwork.</p>
<h1>Does Working Through the Weekend Mean Caring?</h1>
<p>The legacy app Alex’s team inherited was so broken that they couldn’t even run it locally, let alone deploy a fix for it when short on time on a Friday. They decided to regroup on Monday to find a solution. Alex, eager to prove himself, spent the weekend writing a new app to serve as a drop-in replacement. “I was done by Monday at 8 a.m. Just enough time to shower and walk to the office.”</p>
<p>Once there, he approached his manager to show off the fruit of his labor, only for the manager to share with him the drop-in replacement app another team member built over the weekend. <em>Maybe the colleague didn’t bother with showering and so got to the office first.</em></p>
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