Well any smaller company will demand more work from employees I feel so there were some long days, but not necessarily routinely. The bigger problem was that the company lost a lot of its 'charm' once they started acquiring other companies and rapidly growing. When the moved into the new building that was so nice and scrapped the jeans/T-shirt dress code for business casual I knew days were numbered. Yes I know small companies need to grow up but this was sad a sign that things were going to become more corporate. Sure enough one acquisition after another the company lost its personable feel and started to become more political. Politics eventually overwhelmed the desire to find the best solution but rather the best solution given some unnecessary constraints (as set by politics). As is typical after several acquisitions products were eliminated or consolidated, sometimes loosing some people associated with them. This caused confusion in some cases as people previously comfortable with the products they worked with suddenly owned something entirely foreign to them which caused support issues and frustration in general. Also with the infusion of many people from other companies talents were overlooked because responsibility of products or services was moved to some other office. I hear that this continues to be the case from the folks that I keep i touch with that haven't moved on yet.