Sick of companies saying they are "startups" as an excuse to give their workforce a poor work/life balance

I have been interviewing over the last few months and recently I was talking to one company on the east coast. They told me that I'll likely be working longer hours because "it's a startup". The compa

I have been interviewing over the last few months and recently I was talking to one company on the east coast. They told me that I'll likely be working longer hours because "it's a startup". The company has been around for over a decade and it is publicly traded, this is not a startup! My last company had employees work 2 full time jobs for the price of 1 salary. The CEO told us "this is just expected out of you at a startup". They had been around since 2008 and were profitable. This is not a startup! I interviewed at a digital agency and they told me I would have to meet tight deadlines and work late due to customer needs because again, "it's a startup". The company was again over 10 years old and didn't even have any sort of equity. Again, not a startup! Has anyone else encountered this? It seems like "we're a startup" is just a lame catch all tech companies are using to squeeze their workforce. I'm just really sick of it and it seems to be a wider problem of poor work life balance being scapegoated.