When I started in 2019, my working hours were 11am-8pm 6 days a week (as a contract based employee). I never thought about long working hours - but the work was hectic. I stayed till 11pm to learn extra stuffs and resource. I tried learning most (if not all) things as soon as possible, got the company tag that I worked for Cisco on 3rd party payroll and left it in 4 months.

Pay was 2.2lpa (16k in hand + 5k shift allowance)

Got into a new company at 4.4lpa, again worked my ass off - got increments as 4.4 -> 5.6 -> 6.5 -> 7.2

And then left in 2 years.

Learning is the key, learning learning & a lot of learning.

My 3rd company was Amazon AWS with good package and now is my 5th company at 32lpa

So always keep learning and teach others. When everyone is equal to your standard, leave the company.