I worked at a startup for over a year. You would think the hours would be crazy but it was the opposite. This was a semiconductor company and I am in physical design.
The list price of our tools cost over $1 million per license. We had a special deal for the first year for extremely cheap licenses. We taped out our chip and then the management spent the next year trying to get investment and/or sell the company.
During that time other people were developing improvements but I had no licenses to do anything. I attended 2 meetings a week. We were already working remote 60% of the time. I basically did a lot of hiking, reading, and projects at home.
This lasted over a year until I lost faith in the company and found another job. There are people still there 2 years later including two who do very little.
The list price of our tools cost over $1 million per license. We had a special deal for the first year for extremely cheap licenses. We taped out our chip and then the management spent the next year trying to get investment and/or sell the company.
During that time other people were developing improvements but I had no licenses to do anything. I attended 2 meetings a week. We were already working remote 60% of the time. I basically did a lot of hiking, reading, and projects at home.
This lasted over a year until I lost faith in the company and found another job. There are people still there 2 years later including two who do very little.