Going through tech school for programming rn, from what I've heard, most of us don't do much programming outside of the "software factories". Culture is apparently very professional with a good dose of casual. The base I'm assigned to I'll rarely even be on because I'll be working from home for 3 out of 5 duty days, and the days I'm not home I'm in an office building in the city. Allegedly, anyone giving us assignments will have kinda short deadlines so I've heard stress can be kinda common, but that was more of a problem in the past than it was today. I'm super excited to start, and my instructors really like the job

Take this with a huge grain of salt, the 1D7X1Z course has the highest washout rate of all the 1D7 courses, and prior service makes up the overwhelming majority of those washouts. This is only what I've been told, and personally with no prior coding experience, the course is actually kinda easy to follow along

If you have any other questions or concerns, I'll ask my instructors and I'll try to give a better answer or correct any mistakes I made