Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from this week’s The Pulse issue. To get articles like this in your inbox, every week, subscribe here.“996” stands for “from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week”, and used to be a common work pattern at Chinese tech companies until it was officially banned starting from 2021. Suc...