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it's definitely not the norm, though was still relatively common then.

But it was a huge red flag then, and is a bigger red flag today.

Cleartax was also among the "no equity for employees" club though they went back on it after a while if I remember correctly. But yeah, they were not an employee friendly company by any metric then.

Edit: I just searched Blind after writing this and looks like they have maintained the culture

n=1 but I remember interviewing with them in 2014-15 and their founder (Archit) came across as really lacking humility.

He called people from big companies as lazy (I was coming from a BigCo). At one point, he laughed when I mentioned writing code in a language he felt was outdated.

And of course like any toxic startup they expected me to work 6 days a week.