A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer (Quarantine Edition)

I always wanted to make one of those “a day in the life of a software engineer” videos, but since the office has been closed since March, I thought I would just write about what life has been like while working from home for over 6 months. If you want to know more about what life has been like for me at the office, check out my previous article here.

I never expected that I would end up working from home for a prolonged period of time in my career. I started working at Salesforce in January 2020, but then the Covid outbreak got worse that the office had to shut down in March. 3 months. That’s how long I was at the office. I thought that this outbreak would slow down and things would start to get better within a few months, but I was wrong. Covid has definitely changed our lives. Some companies have even allowed their employees to work from home forever, such as Twitter! As companies are starting to adjust to this “new normal”, I thought I would talk about how it has affected my work day as a software engineer.

What I like about working from home is that I don’t have to wake up really early in order to think about my commute to work. Atlanta traffic can be one of the worst, so even though my office is only about 25 minutes away from home, it takes me up to an hour just to get there. Instead, I don’t have to think…