Adding to the other responses here; in my experience many engineers at startups get sucked into the mindset of aggressive sprints and crunch time. This manifest

Adding to the other responses here; in my experience many engineers at startups get sucked into the mindset of aggressive sprints and crunch time. This manifests as a failure to properly estimate project time. If you are working remote, managing your own hours, and properly estimating your tickets then there is no reason you can't have a very reasonable work/life balance.