opferbereitschaft.

for those working on the iphone, the next three months would be the most stressful of their careers. screaming matches broke out routinely in the hallways.
engineers, frazzled from all-night coding sessions, quit, only to rejoin days later after catching up on their sleep.
a product manager slammed the door to her office so hard that the handle bent and locked her in; it took colleagues more than an hour and some well-placed whacks with an aluminum bat to free her.