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by user5994461 3401 days ago
> In my time there, I saw malicious fights for power, interns repeatedly putting in over 100 hours a week but only getting paid for 40

Let's repeat one more time, don't do 100 hours week, you'll never get paid for it.

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Agreed. Unless you have significant ownership stakes in the company, killing yourself with overtime is never rewarded. It just becomes the normal, and when you finally do cut back, everyone seems disappointed.
While I don't doubt the rest of the article, I will say as a former Uber intern (this past summer) the vast majority of us were not overworked. I (and most of my fellow Uber interns) worked between 40-50 hours a week, and we were paid hourly (with overtime being paid at 1.5x base pay).
50 hours => 10 hours of overtime

Or 15 if you're in one of the lazy European countries, like France.