Working Nights and Weekends
Seeing a theme at my work. I am a people leader but also was a sales engineer. I am seeing themes beyond just my team where the ratios of SEs to AEs are lowering and the volume of work is increasing due to that. I work at a company that isn’t doing much hiring or even backfilling for the SE role.
I am personally putting in 3 nights of extra effort a week. Late. So I can talk to product in India. Up to 3-4am finish.
Right now I am working this weekend. Have to build an end to end demo for a Monday dry run. Meanwhile some of my team is doing the same.
Are you all seeing this theme too where you work? As a people leader I am doing the typical things: take time off later to balance, expense your food this weekend, and in some cases I’m taking the work because I can.
I will say one thing about my company. SEs are second class citizens. And we are at the mercy of the simple sales people and leadership. There’s no such thing as No.