ribboo@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?English
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2 months agoAnd that’s after you’ve located and understood the problem. That part is often far more complicated and time consuming than the fix itself.
When I was a junior about 95% of my days was writing code. Nowadays? 30-40% maybe. The rest is meetings, code-review, helping colleagues that calls me among other things.
Good luck finding that Mr Algorithm. Commit history is basically useless due to another factor as well. For bugs - finding the actual problem and the reason for it, is often far more consuming than the fix itself.