Are you a strictly 9-5 guy? Do those exist anymore?
Do you work weekends? Night hours?
I'm about 55 hours a week. I'm an IT Manager (QA). I work a long day-- usually 7:45a- 5:45p and then generally login at night after we get the kids to bed. Depending on what's going on the night work could just revolve around checking email-- which would last about 10 minutes. Other times I could be on for a few more hours.
Essentially, I'm always on call (but rarely get called in the middle of the night.)
I 'loosely' work every weekend. Meaning email checks and some light work on deliverables if needed.
I think this is all part of the management game. The QA staff generally doesn't work over 45 hours a week. (always exceptions around deadlines, etc).
I'd say on average the software engineers work more hours. But I think that is more reflective of how bad a job we do at our software dev methodology (agile discussion).
Do you work weekends? Night hours?
I'm about 55 hours a week. I'm an IT Manager (QA). I work a long day-- usually 7:45a- 5:45p and then generally login at night after we get the kids to bed. Depending on what's going on the night work could just revolve around checking email-- which would last about 10 minutes. Other times I could be on for a few more hours.
Essentially, I'm always on call (but rarely get called in the middle of the night.)
I 'loosely' work every weekend. Meaning email checks and some light work on deliverables if needed.
I think this is all part of the management game. The QA staff generally doesn't work over 45 hours a week. (always exceptions around deadlines, etc).
I'd say on average the software engineers work more hours. But I think that is more reflective of how bad a job we do at our software dev methodology (agile discussion).
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