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As a non-US worker I definitely agree. My big advantage over US-based employees is that I'll work for less. Why would I insist on getting paid exactly the same as a Bay-area employee when I could ask for significantly less and be well ahead of what I could make locally?

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I was going to ask exactly that. Don't people in tech in the bay area work on average something like 60 hours a week?

Barely anyone in Europe is working more than 40 (or 42) hours.

This is a common thought but it certainly hasnt been the case at any of the bay area startups or faangs I have worked at or interviewed for. Always 40 hrs.

Are there super heavy hustle places? Probably, but most places realize more time is not linearly more output for creative/knowledge work.

(Similarly, the internet would have you think anywhere offering "unlimited vacation" is a scam but I used and loved it)

Even goes that far that companies fire first in the US and then in other locations (assuming same performance).

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