996 is fairly common in Asia, but most of the companies who do them are quite inefficient. They generally pay well. Much of that labor tends to go into document

996 is fairly common in Asia, but most of the companies who do them are quite inefficient. They generally pay well. Much of that labor tends to go into documentation, tests, debugging tools. FE tends to be overdetailed, like you'd see a class called PrimaryButton8VerticalPadding6StartPadding. I find that work in those companies are fairly chill because of this. Developer experience is a lot better. It's more drag and drop. Longer hours mean you see people in offices just hanging out until late at night. They'll scarf down a naan in 6.8 minutes, then head up to office, then watch something on their computer. Companies with less hours are generally more stressful. You need to be pretty smart. Sometimes you have to find out where the docs are. Sometimes you have to read the code and not the docs. It's really up to what you're comfortable with. What really sucks is the companies that work 6 days but think that they're actually working hard. It's a slider whether you want to work harder or work longer hours.