I'm a software engineer for a small company that makes and sells electronic gadgets. I almost exclusively do new product development
Day to day, at a base level it's an average of 30 minutes of meetings per day, plus looking busy and being "available" to answer questions about something they think I might know about (this winds up only taking up around 1 hour per week). On top of that is about 4-30 hours per week of coding depending on what the bosses are expecting and my mood. The hours aren't distributed in any particular way; some days I don't do anything aside from the meetings, others I might do multiple 10-12 hour days back to back. But tbh it probably lands at around 15 hours of coding most weeks, it only gets to 30 if it's crunch time or I'm genuinely interested in what I'm assigned to do, and only gets down to 4 during the holiday season or if I'm working on some internal tool there isn't urgency for.
I'm a software engineer for a small company that makes and sells electronic gadgets. I almost exclusively do new product development
Day to day, at a base level it's an average of 30 minutes of meetings per day, plus looking busy and being "available" to answer questions about something they think I might know about (this winds up only taking up around 1 hour per week). On top of that is about 4-30 hours per week of coding depending on what the bosses are expecting and my mood. The hours aren't distributed in any particular way; some days I don't do anything aside from the meetings, others I might do multiple 10-12 hour days back to back. But tbh it probably lands at around 15 hours of coding most weeks, it only gets to 30 if it's crunch time or I'm genuinely interested in what I'm assigned to do, and only gets down to 4 during the holiday season or if I'm working on some internal tool there isn't urgency for.
Starting to feel like I'm getting the wrong degree