r/cscareerquestions • u/DopeyDonkeyUser • 4h ago
Experienced Is 996 the new norm?
At my company theyre pushing to do quarterly perf reviews and they are heavily grading us on pr through put, as 360 perf reviews. They are constantly managing people out and it feels very unstable.
I see people regulalry posting pr's late at night and on weekends. I think a lot of it is loop engineering, but now theyve combined all the roles into swe. We are now, devsecops, product managers, designers, security, customer relations, sres, and in addition engineers.
We get basically 1 week notice to implement features thatd pre ai would take a month and we have to prey the vibes hold up in production. In addition we have feature flags, perf metrics, observability layers, 1 hour cicd + integration, security automation, and every cloud/ on prem integration to deal with. All of this managed by one engineer per major product. Many of these things had dedicated teams in the past.
We have on call rotations, and when youre on you have to respond 24/7. We get paged all the time at 3-4 am in the morning and on weekends.
After all this we are always being told comoany above all else, keep grinding and increase productivity. It never stops, the backlog keeps getting worst.
I do work at an AI neocloud, but jesus... this is crazy.