[happywolf]

A lot of pointy-hair bosses, especially in Asia (I am now working in China) assume longer working hours = higher productivity. In other words, they are having the 'factory mindset' whereby an hour not working is equal to an hour of productivity loss. However this assumption won't work for R&D, especially anything related to software.

[gbog]

Fellow China expat here. I work at douban.com and the culture seems to be closer to US tech companies than what you describe.