Our engineering team has been working 60-hour weeks for eight months to hit this product launch and everyone is pretending like this is sustainable but I can see people starting to break and make mistakes and I'm the tech lead but I don't know how to say we need to slow down without looking like I'm not committed. We all keep saying 'just a few more weeks' but we said that three months ago.
More people experience this than they realize.
You can see your team burning out, but as the lead you're scared that calling for a break will make you look uncommitted.
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