[the_local_host]

I'm surprised that "moral hazard" is rarely mentioned in these types of stories. By making their overtime effort available to the CEO as insurance against bad decisions, the engineers are in a way encouraging more bad decisions, since it's the engineers bearing the costs.

[Retric]

Until the entire team quits at the same time which has happened to many companies that do this stuff.

However, if this update failed nothing significant would have happened to Uber. So, they might not have actually cared.