You can ask, but the ones that are terrible will tell you point blank that they care about work life balance and then simply fail to follow through. My advice

You can ask, but the ones that are terrible will tell you point blank that they care about work life balance and then simply fail to follow through. My advice to folks is that if you don’t have a very significant chunk of the company, ie >1% then the payoff can never be good enough to compromise work/life balance. If you’re a founder or very early and have 5% or some such the. That’s between you and your family. Probably still ain’t gonna pay off.