Day in the life of
Full Stack Engineer – Alisa Truzhenko
My working day usually starts sometime between 9:30 AM and 11:00 AM, because I have flexible working hours. As a member of a remote team, I do not need anything more to start my work than to open my working notebook and to join an ongoing Zoom call we have with the team.
At 11:00 AM we have a stand-up where everybody shares their plans for the day and brings up any questions that may need to be discussed.
Rest of the day I spend working on my current tasks. This includes a variety of development-related activities: reading documentations (takes more time than people probably think), delving into existing code, setting up some instruments and working environments, debugging, googling errors, and, at last, writing code for new features.
Also sometimes I have calls to discuss some details of implementing something I’m working on, or pair programming sessions. Besides that one another of my duties is reacting to support tickets that are created when our users have some support requests whenever those requests require attention or help from our engineering team.
Ongoing Zoom call with colleagues
Pros
- Constant learning from doing (learned two new programming languages in last 8 months)
- Small and friendly team
- Possibility to work remotely from anywhere where I have internet
- Being involved in developing a product
- Pure joy from “it works!” moments
Cons
- It can be hard sometimes to stop thinking about problems I work on outside of work
- Sometimes I miss more active physical work
- Working remotely presumably reduces my social contacts
