Perhaps that's the case at some startups, but my own and several others I know of are very flexible. Work the hours you want, from where you want. It's more about what you get done rather than how many hours you work. Someone smart can probably get twice as much done in the same time.
However, sometimes critical situations arise whereby you may need to work a few more hours or on a saturday. If you flat out refuse to do this, then it would come across that you don't care about the startup's success.
These critical situations are rare and often members of a startup will be more than happy to pitch in to solve something quickly when it goes wrong.
When you have a consumer facing product used by hundreds of thousands of people, you can't really wait till Monday when things break on a Friday night. Every hour counts.
My friends at investment banks often work 18 hour days and have a terrible lifestyle/hate their job compared to people I know working at startups.
I'm sure there are great BigCos and startups to work for, like everything in life, there is a good and a bad side.
However, sometimes critical situations arise whereby you may need to work a few more hours or on a saturday. If you flat out refuse to do this, then it would come across that you don't care about the startup's success.
These critical situations are rare and often members of a startup will be more than happy to pitch in to solve something quickly when it goes wrong.
When you have a consumer facing product used by hundreds of thousands of people, you can't really wait till Monday when things break on a Friday night. Every hour counts.
My friends at investment banks often work 18 hour days and have a terrible lifestyle/hate their job compared to people I know working at startups.
I'm sure there are great BigCos and startups to work for, like everything in life, there is a good and a bad side.