overtime

How much unpaid overtime do you work ?

Considering coding is as much a hobby as it is a "job" to most developers can I ask what sort of overtime people work and do you get paid for it or do you do it for the love of it ? ...

Commercial coding for free - how much if any should you do?

I recently answered a question with a proposition that the asker should improve his resistant-to-change boss's legacy system by coding the alternative in his spare time and then presenting it as an alternative approach to his peers. It got me thinking about all the unpaid development work I have done in my working life. Although I know ...

Best way to address required overtime during an interview

There are plenty of interview questions on SO so I hope this one is acceptable. At the least we can make it a wiki? Basically during the phone interview for a software dev position it was made clear that engineers put in significantly more hours than 40/wk. I'd like to address this to see if this is a part of the company culture or if t...

Excel Overtime Calculation

I need to calculate the number of hours and mins I have gone over 1 hour/60 mins. So if I did 1 hour and 6 mins of something and i write that in one cell (E9) I want the other cell (G9) to show 6 mins. So it shows I did 6 mins over the required 1 hour. If I did 2 hours and 40 mins (E9) I want the cell (G9) to show 1 hour and 40 mins. ...

Overtime culture slowly creeping in - How do I handle this?

Our company was one of the very few companies that did not enforce overtime. As such, all my team members promptly worked 40-48 hours a week and everything was good. We hired a few new developers and one of them has positioned himself to be a team lead. He has started working overtime, sending emails in the middle of the night which ha...