Comment Re:I turned down a well paying job at Walgreens (Score 5, Insightful) 816
Additionally, they worked wierd for IT hours, of only 8:00-4:30. They do not work overtime, weekends,or anything else. I didn't
want to be in a programming department that was that regimented. It is a creative process, and if I wanted to work late to figure out
a problem, they didn't want that.
Actually, the most challenging software engineering jobs I know of are purely "9 to 5" (or whatever regular hours) jobs. These are CMM level 5 shops, and work on little simple programs like the Space Shuttle guidance and control software.
That's not to say that "wear a suit" is a
requirement at those shops, but the idea is that
leadership and cohesiveness are vastly important
to reliable software. In other words, the
space shuttle isn't going up guided by code
that a guy wrote late last night
