There’s more to caring than working long hours

<p>I came across&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/castillo__io/status/1656668605210320904" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a tweet</a>&nbsp;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 &ldquo;<em>cared</em>.&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s team inherited was so broken that they couldn&rsquo;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. &ldquo;I was done by Monday at 8 a.m. Just enough time to shower and walk to the office.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/theres-more-to-caring-than-working-long-hours-f64a89e9c718"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>
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