> You can have a career as a software engineer with a 40 hour week if you want. It just won't be at Amazon. Even if you are a software engineer you can make to

> You can have a career as a software engineer with a 40 hour week if you want. It just won't be at Amazon. Even if you are a software engineer you can make top-tier, simply insane amounts of money at most big companies with a sub-40 hour workweek. It is simply a matter of finding the right team and having a good manager. The former is something you can affect and the latter can be luck. But you can definitely make some of the best compensation in CS and have cushy working hours if you play your cards right.