Are you actually working, thinking, resting, chilling

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Is it true that a lot of software engineers do like 1 hour's worth of programming and just surf the internet for the rest of the day? Is this why Elon is so hellbent on watching over everyone's screen and checking commits?

Mykhailo Pietelin · Accepted Answer

At some point your job is not only to write code. It has to be tested, deployed/released, documented. You react to incidents, monitor hell lot of dashboards, create some tickets for future, participate sync ups & interviews, review other people changes, unblock other teams with knowledge you have and they don't. So yeah. Typing code is exactly 1hr a day.

Ruby0nRoids · Answer

Great point. Many don't understand that most of the work is actually research and reading through code. Especially for debugging. Once I have all the info I need to write a function or make a bug fix, it takes me maybe like 10 minutes. Then after compiling its starting the process over again to fix any other bugs.

ld113p7f14 · Answer

Yes, this is exactly Elon's mentality. Many people still have a 19th century factory worker in their mind when they think about work and tend to see developers as people glued to the screen hitting the keyboard for X hours.

kalos45 · Answer

Short answer is no, Devs don't code one hour a day. However, the job does require a lot of analysis, extra tasks to  design, document and collaborate with others. If software engineering was traditional construction, the Dev is architect, sometimes, designer, construction engineer, quality inspector, project manager if it is a big component, and finally the actual builder 🙂 So it really depends where you at if you have very clear idea if what needs build and how you could be programming the whole day, those days are bliss. But otherwise you are doing a lot of stuff that leads to actually building the component.

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