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The advice is not bad, just tailored towards someone looking for a good stable boring job, which is all ok. Therefore the chaos of startups is highlighted as a red flag. Might be good to add here that there are good learnings in the chaos of startups as well, for particular people, at particular times.

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Is it? the "green" answers mentioned on-call and crunch periods.

I'd say these questions are simply about enquiring about a sustainable pace and humane practice, the ones you find to actually be the most important with seniority.

And you can totally have those in a startup environment; may I argue that the successful ones more often got those right than not (and also often get internally enshittified later on as they grow into the Dead Sea effect)

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