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> In an anonymous online poll on how many “focused hours of work” software engineers put in each day, 71 percent of the over four thousand respondents claimed t
by Permit 3y ago
> In an anonymous online poll on how many “focused hours of work” software engineers put in each day, 71 percent of the over four thousand respondents claimed to work six hours a day or less, while 12 percent said they did between one and two hours a day.
I seem to recall many people on HackerNews being of the opinion that it’s almost impossible to do more than four hours of focused engineering work in a day so this seems relatively high.
- 000ooo000 3y agoI can easily imagine many developers actually doing 1-2 hours of work per day because the rest of the day is taken up with "work" like unnecessary meetings, e-learning, fending off BS, etc.