Re:Ask HN: What's your working day like?
by vivaamerica1 on Monday May 08, 2017 @10:58PM
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Software Engineer at Big Corp.
10:00 - get to work, check email, coffee
11:00 - standup: please the clueless Scrum Master by reciting the amazing work I did yesterday, which he has no clue about whatsoever. Usually finish with a "good job" praise
13:30 - random crap: failing builds, random requests from people, pointless meetings. Sometimes interviewing people in this slot
15:00 - coffee
15:15 - more pointless meetings and random crap
16:00 - code review other people
17:00 - check the news/Linkedin/Reddit/HN again
18:00 - practice on leetcode (not looking for a job, just do it for fun)
19:00 - actually do some coding for the day
20:00 - call it a day, home.
The amazing thing is I still got more work done than most people, mostly because the code I write actually works and takes little time to be reviewed by others. Some people seem to be working all day but spend most of the time fixing their own/other people's crap.
10:00 - get to work, check email, coffee
11:00 - standup: please the clueless Scrum Master by reciting the amazing work I did yesterday, which he has no clue about whatsoever. Usually finish with a "good job" praise
11:15 - peruse various newspapers
12:00 - check Linkedin, credit card accounts, Reddit/HN
13:00 - have a salad and coffee
13:30 - random crap: failing builds, random requests from people, pointless meetings. Sometimes interviewing people in this slot
15:00 - coffee
15:15 - more pointless meetings and random crap
16:00 - code review other people
17:00 - check the news/Linkedin/Reddit/HN again
18:00 - practice on leetcode (not looking for a job, just do it for fun)
19:00 - actually do some coding for the day
20:00 - call it a day, home.
The amazing thing is I still got more work done than most people, mostly because the code I write actually works and takes little time to be reviewed by others. Some people seem to be working all day but spend most of the time fixing their own/other people's crap.