How Many Hours per Week on Average do you put in for your Workplace?
I'd love to see a wide sampling of StackOverflow users as I feel that you all tend to represent developers with higher than average passion for your craft. Thanks! ...
work-life-balance
Take a QA job with relaxed short workweek or very pressuring dev job with significant financial rewards?
Hi All. I've been agonizing over a career decision and reached the point where I have to take one of the other. I'd appreciate any community feedback. I'm in my 30s, out of a long time in graduate schools, living in a small city. I got an offer from a nearby company to do QA-related dev (interesting but still QA) during work normal 9-...
using FXCop in your project
Are there a lot of IT shops utilizing FxCop for writing production code? If so, what was/is your overall experience implementing it in terms of culture shift, pain points, and tangible benefits? I am in an environment that is somewhat chaotic and looking for tools to help us standardize our development efforts and get us home at a dece...
Can you go home at 5pm, guilt free?
For those of us who have a 9ish to 5ish permanent employment contract, what is the culture like amongst the programmers? Would it be frowned upon if you go home promptly 5pm everyday? I strongly believe that there are times when overtime is required but this should be the exception rather than the rule. Do you do regular overtime or s...
How to promote a good work/life balance?
Most companies I have worked at always talk about having a good work/life balance. Saying that it is very important for your success. But yet they seldom allow the time for it. So what are some good ways to actually promote this mindset and not fall into the old situation of always letting project demand dictate this? I realize that th...