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by marcinzm 1333 days ago
My current company has teams in NA and EU but they tries to avoid having many meetings across large time zone differences. Even then there are set hours designated for it which keep the time reasonable for everyone. My team is pretty much 9-5 in their time zone (+/- 2 hours per individual preference) and on-call is fairly rare (both in how often you're on call as it's department level and how often an actual alert goes off). The company generally values WLB although I do now some teams are less good about it.

To answer you question. Interviews are a two way street and it's on you to ask questions to figure out the WLB of the team. Don't ask "how is the WLB" but ask specific questions such as "how many time the last month were there meetings after 5pm" or "how often did pages go off the last few months and what is the rotation schedule."