6 day work week normal at Startups?

hey guys, I'm interviewing at a startup currently and they are asking me if I can work 6 days a week for a couple of months initially till the Product goes live. how do I respond to this? I want to take the offer but the 6 day work week is what pulling me back from accepting the offer.

is it like an unknown fact that all successful startups had 6 had days working week initially, because then why are all early stage startups these days have a 6 day work week. If you want…you can do 6 days work in 5

Hello Everyone. I completed my graduation in B.C.A in august 2022. I has been an year i have been applying for jobs and side by side learning mern stack. Today o got offer from a startup company in gurgaon for position of angular developer. they are offering me 5 lakh CTC. In which 4.5 per year will be in hand. Probation period is of 90 days and notice period of 15 days in this period. After that notice period is of 90 days. Alternative saturdays are off. I had given experience of freelancing while interview. Is this good to go considering a very early startup. There are only 25 people in this company. They have told me that there will be work load so you might have to spend extra hours apart from work timings 9:30am -6:30pm. Should I wait and apply for some other jobs. Please help me out.

The culture, layoffs, work load, growth chance ?

For context: Weekends are off. So just fri WFH. This is a Series B startup. I am not even asking for a leave but WFH for just 1 day. I joined recently. The only thing I did wrong was possibly informing a little too late. Want to get opinion if I am overthinking or this classifies as toxic culture in startups where you are expected to push limits above and beyond regularly and sometimes weekends. ---

Hi All, I think with funding winter, the work culture in Bangalore Startups is becoming toxic day by day. In my company, it started with filling the daily time sheet of what work we did, then why do we need work from home( Company gives 4wfh/month), then a circular came today that every data filled in timesheet will be minutely checked with card punches, can't be late even for 5 minutes more than 3 times a month. The hypocrisy part is employees are underpaid(5-6 LPA for software developer) and overworked(9+ hrs/day). I got to know one more startup where they have normalised 12hrs/day 6 days a week working and if you work less, it will affect negatively. They force their employees to reside nearby to the office so they can work till 12-2am from 10.30am. Is it common everywhere?

Interning with this startup, it’s been 3 months and they want to onboard me full time. It’s a founder office (generalist) where I contribute in both sales and marketing (It’s a B2B SaaS startup) How much salary should I expect? I spoke to a few people on linkedin and they said they’d offer 8-10LPA for someone like me I’d be really grateful if you guys can share your thoughts, will help me set my expectations better!

Context: I work at a startup, it's a pretty chill work environment, very flexible, hybrid model. Everything is great. Problem: They take flexible work hours too seriously, I have meetings at 10 PM on weekdays and almost every weekend there's some work which they need the next day in most cases but apparently have to keep the meeting on the weekend with no prior notice. I mean, i like going to office twice a week around 11-12 and coming back around 7, wfh when I have a few meetings that day but is it normal to work on weekends? and after work hours? P.S. I've only been in this company for a month and joined as a fresher. Now that I've put it down, this is such a gen z problem lol But what should I do?

So I interviewed for a SaaS company serving US clients. I got selected after three rounds (basic email chat, built a project, technical coding round at last) and got selected. Finally, it was time to discuss salary and joining date with the CEO. He was impressed by the about section on my portfolio, where I mentioned that I like to go on treks, hikes, read books, lift weights, go on a run, etc. During our call he mentioned that everyone at the startup works 6-7days a week, 12hrs a day and asked if I'd be fine with it as I have a "happening life". I said that I'm not used to it but I'll manage and work in appropriate working hours. He seemed to agree on it. But he ghosted me after that, and when I pinged him in the email thread; he said he's not moving ahead with me because my other properties won't allow me to "work as much as other employees". How am I supposed to react to this lol