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  How many hours a day do you generally need to work?
  
  Less than 8. In most cases especially with remote work people get their work done in a lot less than 8 hours a day. 
  
  How often do you have periods of extra periods of work beyond the norm and how many additional hours can you expect in those instances?
  
  If you're smart about it, you wouldn't be working overtime at all. It's best to set the expectations from your managers early on.
  
  How flexible is the job if you need to do kid stuff during the day?
  
  Very flexible. Especially with remote work which I believe tech has the highest percentage of people doing remote work.
  
  Everything you described makes a job fulfilling, but there are plenty of fulfilling jobs with terrible work-life balance. 
  
  True, I should have noted that there would be outliers. I was hinting at the average but I should have been more clear. Absolutes aren't good.
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  You didn’t address any of the major issues that drive most work-life balance problems.   How many hours a day do you generally need to work?   How often do you have periods of extra periods of work beyond the norm and how many additional hours can you expect in those instances?  How flexible is the job if you need to do kid stuff during the day?    
  Everything you described makes a job fulfilling, but there are plenty of fulfilling jobs with terrible work-life balance.    
  And it’d be very hard to pass judgement on whether the entire industry has a good work-life balance since it’s almost always company specific.    From the outside, my impression is that plenty of tech firms have terrible work life balance.   Crunch at game development companies.   Sleepless nights at startups trying to get the product out the door to chase those big IPO bucks.   Weird creature comfort perks at the office like a game room to distract you from the fact that you’re still in the office.  “Unlimited” vacation days that are actually a neat accounting trick accompanied by subtle pressure to never take any real vacation.   And so on.