Ask HN: How do you manage to work less than 8 hours despite full-time job?

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage to work less than 8 hours despi... by burntoutfire on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:44PM (#27098526)

The solution is simple - just switch teams to one where people are allowed to slack off. It's basically a norm in a big bank I work for - the management is mostly non-technical and clueless, there's little time pressure so devs are not really pushed hard (or at all) to deliver.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage to work less than 8 hours despi... by theonething on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:00AM (#27127108)

that sounds great. How to find a company/team like that?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage to work less than 8 hours despi... by badpun on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @04:46AM (#27128155)

Word of mouth is the surest thing I guess - just listen to your colleagues describing low-effort companies/teams they’ve encountered, and try to get there. FWIW I’m in Europe and all the jobs I’ve had here in big multinational companies were pretty low-effort. Maybe it’s less common in the US.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage to work less than 8 hours despi... by ElectricMind on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @06:51AM (#27128802)

//multinational companies in Europe//

Could you please name few of these, I soon will be looking for Junior Java Developer job. Thanks :)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage to work less than 8 hours despi... by badpun on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:01AM (#27129279)

Sorry, I don’t want to dox myself here. But pretty much any team doing maintenance on something older is pretty slow-going. Also, ant work which requires a lot of integrations is often blocked by dependencies not getting their shit right.

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