How many hours/day do you work?

Question

Seeing varying opinions on what is reasonable, typical and/or expected in our field. At the same time, rates of burnout seem high in our profession. Curious to hear views from other folks.

On an average week, how many hours per day do you work as a SWE or manager?

Do you see this vary or spike in your job, and if so, how often?

In your case, if you work overtime, why?

iknemloa · Accepted Answer

8-5 every day, and it spikes when I want to complete tasks.Time doesn’t matter, what you do does.

S g · Answer

10 hours per day

madscience · Answer

Actively working? Like 5 hours/day probably. Most of my other logged time is spent being around for any issues that come up, continuing education, etc.

blackandredtree · Answer

3 hours of heads down, but there’s always other stuff that comes up. Passively almost always working tbh, thinking about the problems I didn’t solve or get to in the back of my mind

How many hours/day do you work?

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