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Comment from irwin21837
Time February 29, 2008 at 3:34 pm

9-5 i think

Comment from Matt S
Time March 2, 2008 at 6:45 am

A few of my white-collar buddies in the field work 9-5 or 8-4 like most desk jobs. I personally work on contract, and work on my own schedule (usually from 8pm-3am). Depending on the scale of the software company/client, some jobs will allow you to telecommute or work on contract as an independent contractor. I’d say it’s best to get started at a regular-hours desk job until you’ve earned a few degrees.

Comment from Eric
Time March 3, 2008 at 3:22 am

This will depend on where you work. If you are hourly or salary. Salary employees usually work up to 60 hours a week. Hourly employees usually work no more than 40. This is the same for Network engineer and the like. I have done both for the last 20 years and it pays well, but you have to carefully select who you work for an the conditions of it. They almost always try to get you to work salary, and they say as long as you get your work done, you can leave early and such. The problem is, if you get work done early and are that good, they just stack more on until you can’t get it done in 40 hours. They all do this.

Comment from Jeff S
Time March 4, 2008 at 12:15 am

Like Eric above I’ve been programing for more than 20 years, so it really depends on what kind of company you go to work for. If you work for a comany where software is just supporting the core business, like a hospital, or airline, bank, etc. then you can expect regular office hours of 8 – 5 or 9 – 6 kind of thing. Generally a straight eight hour day with 1 hour for lunch. I’ve seen that as both a salaried employee and hourly contractor.

However, If you work for a company that writes and sells software as their main product like Microsoft, Intuit, IBM, etc. the hours will be longer and the pace will be more grueling, especially during crunch times before a major deadline. Imagine, everyone on the team all cramming for exams for 3 weeks straight. Life can start to suck at the end of that. So that’s a culture to watch out for, unless of course you’re young, single, and have no personal life.

Also, no matter what kind of company you can probably expect some kind of occasional evening or weekend work to support a major installation or release of software. The larger the company the less common that is since they have production support people to do installs, etc. In smaller companies expect to be on the “rotating support schedule” where you get the “support cell phone” to carry around for a week and get woken up at 3 AM with the occasional system problem. This is probably good incentive to write good software.

Comment from ☼ Ỉẩη ♫
Time March 5, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Depends on the kind of computer job you are doing, but its normally 8-5 or 9-6. If your project involves frequent coordination with clients outside your country to on-site installation/administration then you might have to work odd hours.