[AnotherGoodName]

The real issues come when you work hard and just get exploited.

That's what's really missing here. Someone who got lucky in life and had their hard work rewarded is telling others that hard work pays. In fact for this author in his field it pays off 100x+ whatever it pays for others.

For a salary of a few million a year i too would be willing to work some 12+hour days... for a while. I'd even post a few articles on how hard work is great and rewarding.

[solatic]

Yeah there's a very serious bias when an E9 is telling people to work 18 hour days like he did when he was getting promoted every year at Microsoft. Of course an E9 has a latent interest in seeing more lower-level Facebook ICs put in longer hours. If every Facebook IC put in 12+ hour days, that would be a terrific success from his leadership.

... but what are the chances of every Facebook IC getting promoted to E9? If you're the only rat on the treadmill when everyone else is ambling about, maybe you stand out to get promoted. If you join a company where all the rats are on treadmills, nobody wins that rat race.

[black6]

How many Sergeants Major are there at the FAANGs?

More seriously, I've never heard the E9 designation outside of the military. What does it mean?

[dragonwriter]

E9 “Distinguished Engineer” is apparently the highest level individual contributor engineering level at Meta.

[disgruntledphd2]

And let's be clear, the reason Philip made that level is because he switched to the management track for a bunch of levels, then switched back to IC.