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Ok, genuine question. I've been in a pretty niche field my entire career. But i've never worked more than 30 minutes a day unless I want to. Is it normal for pe

by maldev 4y ago

Ok, genuine question. I've been in a pretty niche field my entire career. But i've never worked more than 30 minutes a day unless I want to. Is it normal for people in some Dev roles to really do "Crunch" let alone actually produce work all day?!? If I do bonus hours helping with recruiting or whatever, I get paid overtime and all the work has contract verbiage saying I can't work more than 40 hours a week without super high up approval.

aidenn0 4y ago
For me, at least, bugfixing is rather rote work. I could probably do it for 12 hours straight, though I would hate myself afterwards. Coming up with some novel solution to some really hard problem isn't something I can do 12 hours a day, but that's like 1% of the bugs at most.
aprdm 4y ago
Yes it’s very common. If you’re into any sort of role where have to maintain a production facing service and it goes down there’s that Too.
- maldev 4y ago
  What services though? I've done enterprise software systems and in the developer position, if it did break, they just rolled everything back. It's been genuinely years, but is that not common? I can kind of understand in game services, but I can't think of another situation i've been in. Given my experience with this was in 2000's with massive java apps.
  - aprdm 4y ago
    IME that's only true if your services don't handle state, or if you have a very advanced system for rollbacks.
neilv 4y ago
Yes, for software people, actually working for long hours during crunch time is normal, most everywhere I've been. IME, people usually don't burn very long hours at work unless they feel they need to. (I've also seen places where it was nigh-impossible to get much work done, due to organizational dysfunction. But I don't think that can translate to long hours for very long, since people are already exploding at 40 hrs/wk of sitting through their work sabotaged, minute to minute. They'll tend to fill the hours with a combination of heroic sisyphean efforts, decompressing/timewasting, and bitter gossiping.) (I recently watched a hilarious deadpan video of a day in the life of influencer intern/junior developer at Facebook, where it seemed only little time was spent on work. But that's not normal.)
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by maldev 4y ago

aidenn0 4y ago

For me, at least, bugfixing is rather rote work. I could probably do it for 12 hours straight, though I would hate myself afterwards. Coming up with some novel solution to some really hard problem isn't something I can do 12 hours a day, but that's like 1% of the bugs at most.

aprdm 4y ago

Yes it’s very common. If you’re into any sort of role where have to maintain a production facing service and it goes down there’s that Too.

maldev 4y ago
What services though? I've done enterprise software systems and in the developer position, if it did break, they just rolled everything back. It's been genuinely years, but is that not common? I can kind of understand in game services, but I can't think of another situation i've been in. Given my experience with this was in 2000's with massive java apps.
- aprdm 4y ago
  IME that's only true if your services don't handle state, or if you have a very advanced system for rollbacks.

neilv 4y ago

Yes, for software people, actually working for long hours during crunch time is normal, most everywhere I've been. IME, people usually don't burn very long hours at work unless they feel they need to. (I've also seen places where it was nigh-impossible to get much work done, due to organizational dysfunction. But I don't think that can translate to long hours for very long, since people are already exploding at 40 hrs/wk of sitting through their work sabotaged, minute to minute. They'll tend to fill the hours with a combination of heroic sisyphean efforts, decompressing/timewasting, and bitter gossiping.) (I recently watched a hilarious deadpan video of a day in the life of influencer intern/junior developer at Facebook, where it seemed only little time was spent on work. But that's not normal.)

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