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ChiperSoft on May 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to work remotely as a software developer

50 hours is common in _startups_, not the industry as a whole.

tsotha on May 23, 2013 [–]

50 hours a week is pretty common for companies that produce commercial software, startup or no. Some segments (games, for example) are more.

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