You go to work at 9am, and you leave at 9pm. Every day, six days a week.
It’s known as “996,” a 72-hour work week that’s become the new normal in the Chinese tech industry.
Many of the leading Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba (which owns Inkstone), JD.com, Bytedance and Huawei all have staff running on this schedule, according to a crowdsourced document naming and shaming some 40 tech companies on Github, a popular code-hosting site where two Chinese software developers have started…