Of course, if a company wants to pay a software developer for overtime, they're free to do so. I've never heard of that being done, however. I'm going to add t

Of course, if a company wants to pay a software developer for overtime, they're free to do so. I've never heard of that being done, however. I'm going to add this to my list of "Harmful Assumptions That Developers Make". If you assume that what your company does is normal, it's a small leap to classify it in your head as fair. From there, you can go your whole career never expecting something as basic as being paid for every hour you work. But it doesn't have to be that way. I've personally arranged my work contracts such that I've been paid for every hour spent working for a company since around 2001. You, and everybody else in tech, should do the same. We're not fast food workers who need to either take what we're given or face having no job. We're free to pick and choose from the single best market for developer talent that there has ever been.