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As a senior dev, teaching should be a good chunk of the job. As a principal I spend a third of my time mentoring, a third of my time in arch/meetings, and a thi
by throwaway5959 4y ago
As a senior dev, teaching should be a good chunk of the job. As a principal I spend a third of my time mentoring, a third of my time in arch/meetings, and a third of my time building (usually with other engineers doing some of the work). The lower you go down the ladder in terms of experience the more you should be coding.
- blindhippo 4y agoAs a senior dev theoretically on track for principal, I'm finding coding occupies maybe 10% of my time over a full year. The rest is largely in "leadership" meetings where we argue over details about goal language and trying to figure out how to blame project failures on "dependencies". Not really what I went into this field for. I miss my halcyon days being a low rank engineer churning out project tasks, but I do get the need for technical people to be providing the right guidance to help herd the cats in management.