Hacker News Reader

> How much of (our, as in, programmers') work is the "writing code" part,

In my experience, For a junior/entry level, 80%+

For a (actual, not just title) Sr. dev? Typically <= 20-25%.

There's no way that even juniors are spending as much as 80% of time actually writing code. They spend >20% attending meetings, completing mandatory training, reading user stories, participating in code reviews, waiting for test execution, etc.

That's highly dependent on scale of org, but fair enough. Sometimes it's closer to 60. And sometimes your seniors are only seeing 10-15, for the same reason.

idk it'll closer to 60% coding, of which >50% would be looking thing up rather than actually writing anything

Reply on news.ycombinator.com