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But while Huawei's compensation package is generous, its working culture can be challenging, according to chip industry managers.

"Working with them is brutal. It's not 996 -- meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. ... It will literally be 007 -- from midnight to midnight, seven days a week. No days off at all," one Chinese chip engineer told Nikkei Asia. "The contract will be for three years, [but] the majority of people can't survive till renewal."

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I assume that's a mistake and it means "twelve hours a day, seven days a week"?

Either way, I have nothing but bad wishes for their new endeavors if that's the case - this is obviously not an acceptable way to treat people.

If they state it up front and people know what they are getting into. What’s the issue? If it’s so horrible, it won’t work right?

007 is a humorous mockery of the younger generation of Chinese workers who work overtime desperately in their companies.

What does that even mean? Obviously people need to eat and sleep and can't literally work 24 hours a day.

You basically trade 3 years of your life for money. Just like the Ben Affleck's Paycheck.

I have no idea. I should have added a smiley.

The whole setup is out of this world: A vilified Chinese company at war with the full American empire. Its leader mumbling military clichees like "surround the cities from the country side". Its headquarters being a Disney-land of copied classical European architecture. And at the same time it is delivering breakthroughs that two years ago would have been thought to be impossible.

In that working culture it is often okay to sleep (at work, at your desk) for 2-4 hours. It is brutal, but people are willing to do it, so it persists.

The incompetence of Russian communists has given people the impression that only capitalism works, but the reality is that the Russian communists were simply too stupid and too hatred driven by their ideology. The simple truth is, it doesn't matter how you organize your economy, as long as it produces what people need and want. Economists see the failure of central planning as evidence that government meddling can never improve the economy, which they then project onto the next closest thing (e.g. China's market economy with extremely severe government intervention) and then they act surprised that it works. Winners are chosen by their performance and luck, not by (western or eastern) ideology.

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