A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer at a Startup

Kaylee Moser
6 min readJan 27, 2020
Photo by Nicole Wolf on Unsplash

There are lots of common misconceptions about the daily activities of software engineers at tech startups. Popular culture has fed into stereotypes that coders spend whole days either quietly hunched over a laptop or wasting time drinking craft IPAs and fist-bumping each other over a game of Super Smash Bros.

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Kaylee Moser

Freelance writer and host of the Sex Ed Shouldn’t Suck Podcast. I write about sex, love, relationships, and sometimes fiction.