It's pretty hard to find information on work hours for companies. Also since obviously the work hours on a particular day depends if you are in a busy period or not, I think an average across 6 months would be a pretty good estimate.
Ask HN: At which companies do programmers work less than 7 hours a day?
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#2In Sweden at a big company, your day as a programmer usually has a few meetings and a lot of social interaction with colleagues. Maybe you get 3-4 hours of programming every day if you are lucky and can focus in the noisy open office environment. Im in the office about 7 hours every day. Salary is excellent for Swedish standards and living costs.
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#3In the Netherlands, it's pretty typical to work 32 hours a week.
Over 5 days, that's less than 7 hours a day. Though most people prefer having 8 times 4 and take a day off :)
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#4In Sweden at a big company, your day as a programmer usually has a few meetings and a lot of social interaction with colleagues. Maybe you get 3-4 hours of programming every day if you are lucky and can focus in the noisy open office environment. Im in the office about 7 hours every day. Salary is excellent for Swedish standards and living costs.
May I ask what the typical programmer's salary is there?
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#5In Sweden at a big company, your day as a programmer usually has a few meetings and a lot of social interaction with colleagues. Maybe you get 3-4 hours of programming every day if you are lucky and can focus in the noisy open office environment. Im in the office about 7 hours every day. Salary is excellent for Swedish standards and living costs.
May I ask what the typical programmer's salary is there?
Depends on where in Sweden. Salaries in Stockholm are higher than the rest. I live in southern sweden, entry level is just over 30'SEK (USD4000), senior over 40' (USD5000). Varies from company to company and by industry etc. But around that ballpark generally
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#6All of them. Some have their butts in their seats for longer than that, but very few employees are generating 7+ hours of productive work on a daily basis for any extended period of time.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I ask what the typical programmer's salary is there?
Depends on where in Sweden. Salaries in Stockholm are higher than the rest. I live in southern sweden, entry level is just over 30'SEK (USD4000), senior over 40' (USD5000). Varies from company to company and by industry etc. But around that ballpark generally
Just to clarify: this refers to monthly salaries. Salaries in Sweden are generally discussed in terms of monthly compensation. From my experience it's yearly in the US.
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#8All of them. Some have their butts in their seats for longer than that, but very few employees are generating 7+ hours of productive work on a daily basis for any extended period of time.
Depends who you ask, UK here and working 7.5hrs/day but when 'working' 5/6ths of your time is spent reading code, 1/6th is spent writing code, I regard that as productive, managers may disagree.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I ask what the typical programmer's salary is there?
Depends on where in Sweden. Salaries in Stockholm are higher than the rest. I live in southern sweden, entry level is just over 30'SEK (USD4000), senior over 40' (USD5000). Varies from company to company and by industry etc. But around that ballpark generally
How much is left after taxes and other obligatory payments to the state?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I ask what the typical programmer's salary is there?
Depends on where in Sweden. Salaries in Stockholm are higher than the rest. I live in southern sweden, entry level is just over 30'SEK (USD4000), senior over 40' (USD5000). Varies from company to company and by industry etc. But around that ballpark generally
Interesting. Those numbers are not that different from Prague (my city). I expected much higher salaries in Sweden.