Your mileage can certainly vary with work-life-balance in FAANGs - I've been at Alphabet for almost 7 years and I've had great WLB. It's something you have to d

Your mileage can certainly vary with work-life-balance in FAANGs - I've been at Alphabet for almost 7 years and I've had great WLB. It's something you have to do deliberately, though; especially with distributed teams, there's always going to be emails coming in, chats to read, documents and CLs to review, etc. If you're someone who tends towards workaholism you may need to set some boundaries in your life. I'm not saying this is universally true at Alphabet, as there are definitely groups that don't do a good job of this, but it's very doable.