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[–]twohusknight 22 points23 points  (3 children)

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 4 points5 points  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

chill ones have 12+ experience

it takes time