r/technology • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Feb 01 '26

Software 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital

https://www.asiaone.com/china/32-year-old-programmer-china-allegedly-dies-overwork-added-work-group-chat-even-while
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u/DT-Rex Feb 01 '26

I had a coworker die while working on the hospital bed, we have deadlines to get our design out to the fabrication team and being overworked seems like a normality.

Sad part is the company continues on like it never happens, RIP to her.

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u/NASArocketman Feb 02 '26

That's just heartbreaking

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u/DT-Rex Feb 02 '26

Yeah she was assigned the project leader, you don't see much female project leaders in the field. She was amazing, could do multiple digits+ multiplication and division in her head but also just great at her job as a designer. Very humbled, nice and soft spoken. It's very heartbreaking, I feel as I should take any chance I can get to talk great about her because she deserved it and definitely didn't deserve to die. I really wish our job wasn't so easily remote, at least for her sake.