I had a job interview with a somewhat young, small company. I'm used to startups and I know there's a lot of work involved. But most of their cultures seem to value work/life balance and mental health more than the big corporations or older companies etc.
Anyway, this manager happened to be a middle aged white male from Texas. I'm not saying that automatically means anything, but with this story I just feel like including that detail. After a pretty normal interview, my turn for questions came. I asked about work culture, he gave me a very generically vague bullshit response. At this point, from what he was saying, I was pretty iffy with my interest. It's an interesting company and the pay is fantastic, but I kept getting the vibe that they want to own your entire life if you work there.
So I asked about the culture where it pertains to work/life balance. Lollllll this buffoon almost threw a tantrum. He ranted about how that term became a buzzword in the last few years and how it's just a way for workers to pass on accountability, and it's every individual's responsibility to balance their life. There can't be any fault to the company if employees don't figure that out for themselves. Eventually he calmed down a bit and rounded it all off with “we have very successful employees who only work a fifty hour week on average”. Straight up thought that was a good selling point as a conclusion.
Needless to say, I am not pursuing any further interview process with them, and the feeling was apparently mutual since they withdrew anyway lol.