In France, as a "cadre" (most tech people are cadre for some reason) you're paid by the day and not by the hour, hence there's no cap to 35h. You do however ge

In France, as a "cadre" (most tech people are cadre for some reason) you're paid by the day and not by the hour, hence there's no cap to 35h. You do however get RTT (basically paid holidays) to get back the hours that you do above 35h (usually half a day a week to compensate for the 40h classical work week)