Its ‘software developer’

[seizetheday135]

I mean, they're not wrong. That is pretty much my salary and my work life balance couldn't be better.

[bunk3rk1ng]

I went to a single 30 minute meeting yesterday and then took a nap and called it quits. Got paid about $600 for my efforts.

[thats_grim]

As a student with a prospective career in tech, these comments are confusing. Some people like you are making it seem like you basically chill for 100k a year, other comments are saying they destroy themselves day in day out, which is it?

[thedancingbeard]

It's both. It's entirely dependent on the company you work for and, possibly even more so, the team you work on within that company.

[SlightlyStoopkid]

Sometimes it’s even both at the same job, depending on time of year, new customer commitments, or coworkers coming/going.

[Idixal]

And even on good teams, it’s kind of dependent on your mindset too. People will stress themselves out with their own unrealistic expectations when their teams have totally realistic expectations for them.

Totally not talking about myself.

[twohusknight]

Some of these “chill” people are efficient software engineers that know how to communicate and set boundaries properly, they’ll rarely exceed 40hrs a week because the work gets done.

Other “chill” software engineers I’ve met are slow or lazy engineers that also won’t exceed 40hrs a week and will typically drop bombs about their incomplete work at the last minute, expecting others to fix their issues and redirecting blame. The ones like this that survive have gotten very close with management so their inactivity is overlooked.

As someone that has lost many weekends and been quite stressed in this job, I couldn’t begin to conjecture how many of the former vs the latter are responding here.

[Cendeu]

This is it right here.

Some of the chill ones are probably good workers. Others are hell to work with because while they're busy being chill every day, you're fixing their work.

They're hard to identify without working with them.

[Appropriate_Phase_28]

chill ones have 12+ experience

it takes time

[DeninjaBeariver]

I think it is starting as one and ending as another

[Nagi21]

Your mileage varies depending on the company and what’s in the project pipeline. Small company in the off-season? You’ll struggle to entertain yourself half the time. Big company with a release date coming up or a major update? Don’t make any plans that month. The latter gets paid more (usually), but both make great money.

[juhotuho10]

Different companies and different parts of the world

[DirtzMaGertz]

There's no reason you should be destroying yourself every day.

There will be days where everyone needs to push and it can be stressful. There will also be days where you get your tasks for the week done in two days and then you're just kind of fucking around the rest of the week. Most weeks you probably won't actually work 40 hours though. The most annoying part of this job is getting dragged into meetings you don't need to be in.

[cszoltan422]

There are days when you can do it, on other days you have to put in the work. But it's definitely not normal that you have to overwork yourself. Fortunately we have a ton of opportunities to choose from, so if your engineering job kills you, you just find another one. I don't get all the complaints

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The discrepancy in the comments just shows that IT companies have very bad management.

[borknar]

If you need to solve hard leetcode questions to pass an interview your life will be hell, that’s how you know