[prima-facie]

> We pulled an ultrahackathon. The team who built this did not sleep much for two days. They worked through Wednesday night, through Thursday, through Thursday night, through Friday. They ate at their desks. They wrote the spec late Wednesday evening and they wrote the cutover commit on Friday afternoon, and in between they did the work that the time between those two moments required.

Cool story but I would not want to be in their shoes. Treating your employees poorly only to justify overnight changes in business needs creates a highly toxic work environment.

[runtime_terror]

Yeah that was a huge red flag. Classic power tripping CEO move to arbitrarily inject a deadline for a new project mid-sprint which then forces your team to work all-nighters and still have them deliver on all their sprint work.

If I worked there I'd be immediately looking for a new employer, I guarantee this isn't the first time they've done stuff like this over the years.

[prima-facie]

There are cases where the workers' right to stay in the country depends on their employment, in which case this creates a huge power imbalance.

[runtime_terror]

Oh for sure, our H1B visa system is a joke and is just setup for control of labor

[InsideOutSanta]

Yeah. I understand that this was an exceptional situation outside their control, but having to work multiple days straight is nothing to be proud of. It's something to apologize for and give a corresponding monetary reward for, and then see what kinds of mitigations you can take to avoid this in the future.

[gowld]

How much vacation and overtime pay did the team get for that effort?

[rirze]

Forget vacation and overtime pay, I'd expect equity at that point.