The Tech Bubble

January 7, 2008 - 3:00 PM by

Think the pressure in Silicon Valley’s high?

Israel’s hi tech industry is also rife with “married to the job” stories of high pressure deals, all nighters and 12-hour work days.

The Jerusalem Post’s Larry Derfner has filed a revealing piece titled Inside the hi-tech bubble providing tidbits on the goings-on in some of the industry’s workplaces.

“Tali,” a computer programmer in her 30s, left the industry a year ago to stay home with her three children. “All the negative descriptions – a ‘gilded cage,’ ’21st-century slavery’ – they turned out to be true,” she says. She tells of once driving her daughter to a ballet lesson, then getting a work call on her cellphone, parking the car, talking for more than a half-hour and only afterward realizing that her daughter was in the back seat, having missed the ballet lesson.

It’s worth a read. Thanks JobMob for the heads up.

Tags: • Category: Business, Israeliness, Technology 

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2 Comments on The Tech Bubble

  1. Jacob Share on Mon, Jan 7th 2008 9:32 PM

    2. You’re welcome, Stephanie. As you can tell from my post, it was an article that I could identify with, to say the least.

    Thanks for mentioning JobMob. I Stumbled this post, hopefully you’ll get some traffic:

    http://jakeshare.stumbleupon.com/review/15951261/

  2. Stephanie on Mon, Jan 7th 2008 11:18 PM

    3. cool

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