I'm a developer at Mahalo, and still have time to sing in operas, organize an a cappella group, blog, read, date, play ultimate frisbee, workout 4-5 times/week, code on some personal programming projects, and generally enjoy life. Most of the talk of 80 weeks is way over-hyped. Some times are certainly trying during a push, but it's by no means absurd.
Personally, I love all of the opportunities to hang out with other team members. We spend our working hours together, getting to know each other outside of work means that I get to work with my friends all day. It's awesome. You make a good point about that sort of thing become less enticing as you get older. We have a young team though, so it works out for the most part.
That said though, we have people on the team who never come to any of the outside events, and I wouldn't say that they are treated any differently. Everyone's free to make their own choices in this matter. At the end of the day, if they enjoy the work and we all get along, no one cares what you do when you go home.
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I'm a developer at Mahalo, and still have time to sing in operas, organize an a cappella group, blog, read, date, play ultimate frisbee, workout 4-5 times/week, code on some personal programming projects, and generally enjoy life. Most of the talk of 80 weeks is way over-hyped. Some times are certainly trying during a push, but it's by no means absurd.
Personally, I love all of the opportunities to hang out with other team members. We spend our working hours together, getting to know each other outside of work means that I get to work with my friends all day. It's awesome. You make a good point about that sort of thing become less enticing as you get older. We have a young team though, so it works out for the most part.
That said though, we have people on the team who never come to any of the outside events, and I wouldn't say that they are treated any differently. Everyone's free to make their own choices in this matter. At the end of the day, if they enjoy the work and we all get along, no one cares what you do when you go home.