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What's the expected work hours for software engineers?

Used to only have meetings starting at 10:00, sometimes at 9:00. This new company has a ton at 8:00 and sometimes 7:00. Have I been just lucky so far? Is this normal/to be expected?

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I've worked from 9:15 to 4:30 at one company and 9:00 to 5:00 at another. Both also have mandatory on-call (24/7) on a weekly rotation. The latter also mandates that releases be done at 8:30pm.

Both companies have daily meetings (standups) at 9:30. The latter also has frequently has meetings at 9:00.

Just my experience.

Edit: Oh, I should mention. When I started at the latter place, my boss was like "what will your hours be?" and I said "how about 9:00 to 4:30?” And he was like "cool." Then a couple of days later, he was like "we need another half-hour per day." And I said "ok, how about 9:00 to 5:00?" and he was like "cool." And then a couple of years later after my boss had left the company, my boss's boss said "so... you're supposed to be working another hour a day... I don't really care because you get your work done... you must have had a special deal with , yeah? Well, even if you don't need to work that extra hour, do log an extra hour a day, please." Lol.

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That's interesting, 8h to 9h is sort of what I'm used to. This new job has meetings at 8:00 pretty often, felt like that's a bit of an outlier schedule

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Thanks! I knew there was some kther community but couldn't find it via Jerboa's search

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