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A lot of smaller companies are open to it once you've worked there and proven yourself.

My current and prior jobs have people in 3-4 day a week roles. But the people in those roles are senior contributors whose value to the company is as much knowledge as it is contributions.

I would argue that while this is true, equally sometimes at interview you can be in a good negotiating position too, that's when they've decide they want you. Sometimes being wiling to work for a little bit under what they'd have been willing to pay, sweetens the deal. I mean, don't ask for 4 day week AND top dollar salary at the same time.. unless you're a proven superstar. ;)

It was a startup and they were flexible when i asked to work for 4/5ths pay for 4/5ths workload.

It should probably be a norm but right now it's ad-hoc for companies to support it in order to retain staff.

I started with a regular 5-day week, but here in the UK (and I think the rest of Europe), companies have to give proper consideration to requests for flexible working. So all I did was ask HR, and they said it was fine.

https://4dayweek.io