"We believe in work/life balance" ...or the closely related... "We reward quality, not just last minute heroics. Yeah, right. I'm at employer #12 right now (30

"We believe in work/life balance" ...or the closely related... "We reward quality, not just last minute heroics. Yeah, right. I'm at employer #12 right now (30+ years in the business) and this has never been true. I've been at startups and big companies, I've built products and services, I've been on the good side and the bad side of this, but it has never been true. Cases where people are rewarded for doing the right thing and avoiding crises are rare. Far more often the rewards go to the people who grind out tons of feature code regardless of quality, and/or to those who pull all-nighters to debug those avoidable problems after they've already bitten a user. If you're the kind of developer who wants to do The Right Thing, and you want to be rewarded for it, find a company and/or manager who has demonstrably done that. Do as much of it as you can, but don't rely on it to drive raises/promotions. Make sure you also do enough of the "move fast" BS so that you don't get written off before people even think to look at quality or team contributions to decide between you and the person in the next cube.