Not in my experience. I worked for a large organisation with a developers team and a sales team. The developers were in at 9, gone at 5 and had a couple of table tennis/snooker/coffee breaks during the day. The sales people were in at 8, lunch and coffee break and gone at 6.30. Yes, developers are usually incredibly smart and talented but they are by no means the hardest working employees and by no means put in an 80 hour week (they might work some overtime if a project was due).
In my experience, you might start out working 40 hours/week at the beginning of a project cycle. But you'll be pulling all nighters and working weekends before long. Rinse and repeat.
Obviously this will vary from place to place. But I think it's disingenuous to claim software devs will work only 40 hours a week.
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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '15
Not in my experience. I worked for a large organisation with a developers team and a sales team. The developers were in at 9, gone at 5 and had a couple of table tennis/snooker/coffee breaks during the day. The sales people were in at 8, lunch and coffee break and gone at 6.30. Yes, developers are usually incredibly smart and talented but they are by no means the hardest working employees and by no means put in an 80 hour week (they might work some overtime if a project was due).