|
|
|
|
|
|
by Cd00d
1762 days ago
|
|
|
I'm not actually working meaningful overtime. I am working a more flexible schedule where I handle some details from my phone AFK and work dedicated hours at times that fit better with family obligations. I actually believe setting that expectation helps my colleagues. And again, I work at small companies by choice. If we fail a product, the company may fail, then we are all out of a job. |
|
|
My view remains that if you're going above and beyond then that shouldn't be just to avoid the downside - you should also be getting a proportionate piece of the upside. For a small software company skilled workers are often bringing most of the value to the table, so you should have a corresponding ownership stake (I don't mean that purely rhetorically - from a friend who works at a consultancy that's structured as a cooperative it sounds like it's very much a "normal job" in practice).
Of course in a more capital-intensive business, or if you're blitzscaling, then maybe the owners are bringing something else to the table that you couldn't replicate with just a gang of programmers. But in that case capital is almost always a part of what they're bringing, and that means the company should be in a position to be paying what things cost.