When I was at Amazon, I read the SDE guidelines from HR, where they describe their view of the role. An SDE1 was expect to spend 4hr coding a day; an SDE3 abou

When I was at Amazon, I read the SDE guidelines from HR, where they describe their view of the role. An SDE1 was expect to spend 4hr coding a day; an SDE3 about 2.5hr coding a day. That’s normal for a job, eg, apartment maintenance (my college job) would have us actually wokring about 4 hours a day, between setup, cleanup, breaks, travel, miscellaneous tasks, etc. Convincing other SDEs to assign points to stories based on that (4hrs of coding per point) was surprisingly hard.