It all depends on the company culture. I’ve been mostly lucky during my career, and always had reasonable WLB, even in startups. My last stint, in fintech, is

It all depends on the company culture. I’ve been mostly lucky during my career, and always had reasonable WLB, even in startups. My last stint, in fintech, is insanely brutal, no WLB at all: 80h a week, emails and IMs in the evenings and early mornings, with expectations of handling them promptly. Every Saturday/Sunday busy doing some deployment or infrastructure surgery. I’m out soon!