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40 hours is excessive? From a philosophical standpoint, yes, but from the way things are in the world that's totally normal lol
by doovd 6y ago
40 hours is excessive? From a philosophical standpoint, yes, but from the way things are in the world that's totally normal lol
- qaq 6y agoIf you remove excessive meetings and other unproductive crap I'd be surprised if median meaningful work hours were above 20h for Soft. Eng.
- dbattaglia 6y agoTotally agree, although for myself personally the other piece that chews up my time is customer support. In previous jobs with standard SaaS applications the support load was there but it was easy enough to just file a bug report in the backlog. Now I’m building managed managed infrastructure and there’s so much that can go wrong that it’s hard to not get sucked in, especially for more senior and tenured folks. 20 hours a week of meetings, OTOH, is brutal amd I don’t miss it. These days I’m much closer to about 5/week average.