Ex-Amazon engineer: at a top AI lab it's 60-hour weeks and on-call till 2am
paigeinsf · x · 2026-09-12
The author shares a friend's experience after moving from Amazon to one of the biggest AI companies: 60-hour weeks, on-call from 7am to as late as 2am, plus weekend standby. The explanation: "models update too fast, and we're a service company." The author notes this is a common pattern.
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