Yeah it was long hours, gave up many weekends. I remember thinking if I wanted to work this many hours I would have become a Doctor. Unfortunately I never seem to get productive until everyone left the office and left me alone. I thought about moving up in management but everything was being "spec"ed to send to the far east to complete. I didn't think I would be able to put up with quarterly trips to the far east when the kids out there ran into problems.
Yeah the company before this one wanted me to travel to Chennai at least 3 times a year for a couple weeks at a time. I said no and quit with no other job lined up.
The first two or three hours everyday was fixing what the Indians f’ed up overnight.
To top that they wanted us to “donate” a week of 12-14 hour days every six months on some bogus team competition BS to foster innovation. The idiot millennials ate this crap up. They just looked at me funny when I said, “you know you are working for free you morons”.