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Re:What Makes a Great Software Engineer? [pdf] by jschwartzi on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:40AM (#15895523)
Yeah, it's not about being unwilling to occasionally work overtime. The thing 9-to-5'ers are railing against is that overtime is being taken for granted. It's that projects are planned with unrealistic deadlines assuming we'll burn our lives away meeting them.
Re:What Makes a Great Software Engineer? [pdf] by deepGem on Monday December 11, 2017 @07:10AM (#15896556)
But don't the managers take the required estimates from engineers and plan accordingly ? Unless there is a strong deadline set by the market or by the customers.
Re:What Makes a Great Software Engineer? [pdf] by ManlyBread on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:56AM (#15898290)
They also can say that the estimate is unreasonable and demand to cut the hours because they're the ones who get a final say.