<i>Worked an average of 74 hours per week with no vacations;</i><p>Why would someone who's 10* better than their peers need to work double the hours?
I don't understand how a software company can have such a terrible website. Social media icons cover the first few words along the left margin, making the article unreadable.
This doesn't seem to be a real Q and A from the people in the article.<p>A comment from Victor Volkman (going by username at least) at the end of the article (one of the people "interviewed" in the article):<p>"Although I'm flattered to have my comments included in this article. I must point out it was mined from several different Quora articles about unrelated topics. At no point was I contacted as to whether I wanted to participate in this article. I would have appreciated the courtesy of a "heads up". I'm not hard to find as they posted at least three of my social media contact links."
> At the end of that phase, I decided I could not survive such boredom.
> My solution was to invent a mini-query language, which could express the key features of each query in a YAML file. Thus, I had the excitement of developing a new expressive language, which was a genuine intellectual challenge as opposed to tedious cut-and-paste mechanics. The end result was much more pleasing to myself.<p>...and probably much more difficult to maintain.