Do you think that CS or ECE students can work for years in MNC considering the work load they put on?

It has been 40 years since first generation of programmers have emerged. In the last 40 years, software has evolved multiple generations, companies have been born, lived , outlived and closed down too.  However what hasnt changed is the amount of work for any technology based professional, it always has been proportional.  If the complexity was less, the systems were slow and viceversa. It is hard to generalize the work load of companies(MNC) in terms of number of hours per day, on an average 8 - 10 hours is the norm. There are extremes too, 16 - 18 hrs a day also.  If the work is monotonous and deterministic, 8  - 10 hours should be sufficient, but with varying schedules, requirements, complexity, work loads shoot up and hence the 12 hour ordeal. However its not true, the work load stays the same for all the 365 days in year, there are tough days, easy days and average days. What is more important is how adaptable you are, can you unlearn and relearn in time, and take decisions which support your career.  Hence it is unnecessary to ponder over the 12 hr stories you might have heard,  a few people put in 6 hours and get 12 hour output, but to reach there they have struggled in the early years. No Pain No Gain. My advise to any fresher (of any stream) is, do Not keep a direct comparision of salary to hours, learn as much as you can and consult people when taking important career decisions.  There is no free lunch anywhere, PSU or MNC. As you sow, so you reap.

"No bees,no http://honey.No hardwork,no money" According me it's not about ece or cse.without hardwork nothing is achieved  in today's competitive world. Nowadays  only people who fall in reservation category can get Govt Jobs & others who can give bribe & take bribe. Talking about health, MNCs provide all the needed facilities like good food, good atmosphere, GYM etc to maintain the same. Even some MNCs provide entertainment facilities too. There are lot of people who have quit Govt jobs & gone to work in MNCs. Therfore working at any good MNCs is not a bad deal.

I worked with Amazon for 1.5 years. They pay good and you can expect a fair amount of work load. Long hours are due to inherent complexity of CSE. But it's not long hours which are frutrating it's nature of job where you hardly use CSE fundamentals and work is quite boring, most of the time you ned to read someone else's code modify it. I love the problem solving which involved in CSE basics but they are absent here. Some time work do get frustrating and sitting in a cubical for whole life is a nightmare for some. Few people do think about mech and civil so they could have cracked IES and all. But grass is greener at other side holds true here. If you dont love what you do, you will end up unhappy and it doesn't really  matter what branch you have taken.