Working 14 hours a day, 7 days a week – and there are candidates. Abuse or transparency?

Dask Gupta is 22 years old and quickly warned candidates to work at his company that there wouldn’t be much room for a life outside of work.

Daksh Gupta He’s only 22 years old but he’s already executive director and Greptile, a recent company very focused on Artificial Intelligence.

The company is hire and, when speaking to the candidates, the young man in charge immediately warned: There won’t be much room to have a life outside of work.

This is because a normal day at Greptile involves working from 9am until 11pm. You also work on Saturdays and sometimes on Sundays.

In short: you work 14 hours a day and 6 days a week, sometimes 7 days a week. 98 hours a weekif they also work on Sunday.

With an environment of “too much stress” and where “there is no tolerance for those who work poorly”warned on .

Daksh Gupta confesses that, in the beginning, even felt bad for having this kind of conversation. But he is convinced that It’s better to be transparent. Thus, the people know what they’re going for right away; they are not surprised when they start working.

recently i started telling candidates right in the first interview that greptile offers no work-life-balance, typical workdays start at 9am and end at 11pm, often later, and we work saturdays, sometimes also sundays. i emphasize the environment is high stress, and there is no…

— Daksh Gupta (@dakshgup)

Consequence of this publication: it received hundreds or thousands of emails. 80% were applications, 20% were death threats.

In one the next day, Daksh Gupta wrote: “It may be hard to believe but there are people who want thisalthough it is a minority. Transparency exists to identify them.”

The director also explained that this routine is not eternal; “It’s not sustainable.” In the first year or two of a startupthat’s how it is.

“As we mature, we will hire older, more experienced people who have families and cannot work 100 hours a week. And naturally we will adapt like any good company”, he guaranteed.

Daksh Gupta also commented that this rule is not universal: there are “brilliant” people who run successful companies, full of “brilliant people who don’t try so hard”.