Re:Ask HN: At your 9-5 job, how many projects are you involv...
by DrSayre on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:18PM
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In a day, it's not unusual I work on issues for 2 different projects and have to troubleshoot a Tier 2 issue for a couple of other projects.
Your second paragraph seems accurate. My friends are ex co-workers that moved on to much larger companies.
That being said, I only encountered this at companies with smaller IT headcount. In corporations it's a little different, as project structures are much more rigid and transferring people takes time, so programmers usually don't jump between assignments that much.