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I had experience in different US tech companies, as well as some European (all remote, European ones in "large" European countries).

In my experience, it depends completely on the company and the context. I worked hard (even weekends) for US companies where later in the year I barely worked (although I had to be online on Slack). So, take the step, it will be a great experience :)

[vkk8]

To be honest, I was pretty discouraged by the other comments here. I know many friends here, who are like me, and work 40 hours per week on paper, but in reality they have something to do maybe 50-75% of that time (sometimes even less). Since we are all remote now, that time is free time. Based on the comments here, in the US tech, the standard seems to be 40 hours a week minimum, plus more if you have any kind of responsibility.

I have a family and, while I like the idea of getting a bit more money, working 70 hour weeks even occasionally and having 2-4 weeks worth of holidays per years sounds worse than horrible to me. Now I have time for family, hobbies and work, all three. In an environment that makes me work around the year, basically without breaks, 40-70 hours a week would force me to pick only one or two out of the three (and one of them would have to be work).