How do Silicon Valley companies get their employees to work weekends and to pull all-nighters?
Some diehards pull all-nighters and play, albeit briefly, every one of the 60 or so games submitted.
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The HiSoft-VanceInfo deal took 19 days (and many all-nighters) from negotiation to public announcement, which is very fast, says Lee.
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At the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium, some researchers take to pulling all-nighters.
Kael wrote quickly and at length, regularly pulling all-nighters into her Tuesday deadlines with the help of cigarettes and bourbon (till she gave up both).
With Hurricane Wilma making menacing circles around the Gulf of Mexico, the 20 expert writers and producers who keep Weather.com fueled with content are pulling all-nighters.
Having a job is supposed to be the reward for hours of SAT prep, evenings spent on homework instead of with friends and countless all-nighters writing papers.
Then came the inevitable hard work, which involved all-nighters, bouts of frustration and a fair share of missed steps - all in the name of journalism, my chosen field.
Houston and Ferdowsi spent the next year pulling all-nighters.
It may seem like a small difference, but it means that you cancel a lot fewer Saturday night plans and pull fewer all-nighters, even if you have to work most of the weekend.
Instead, financial reform became a slightly more polite repeat of the health-care-reform brawl: the Republicans threatened filibusters, the Democrats threatened all-nighters, and thousands of lobbyists prowled the Capitol, charging their Wall Street clients more than a billion dollars.
These same junior Goldman bankers who pulled all-nighters doing the grunt work on the Archipelago-NYSE deal were also maneuvering the firm for a boost in the rankings of deal advisers related to the transaction, and gossiping over possible conflicts in advising both buyer and seller.
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