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Lee Haugen

Software Engineer
Computer and Mathematical Occupations
Portland, Oregon
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Anina Aug 02, 2019 956 views

How much of the time is a backend software engineer actually writing code?

I'm a CS major in college and I am about to finish up a 12-week internship in backend software engineering at a division of a very large tech company. I'm a little surprised at what % of my internship was actually spent writing code: just about 3 of the 12 weeks. The other 9 weeks were mostly...