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IT Engineering | Programming | Full stack | Career Level-up

Do All Programmers Spend 8h A Day Writing Code?

Most senior programmers would die of embarrassment after admitting this.

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Igor Jovanovic
Apr 08, 2024
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Tim from my course complained to me recently about their job and asked me for an opinion.

This guy has just landed a junior role at a web dev agency and wanted to know how much time a day an average programmer spends writing code.

(The agency requests Tim to log time and expects every engineer to have 8 hours of coding in a w…

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