[benjaminwootton]

But in how many coding jobs is pressure a real and common occurrence?

Even working in front office banking roles, there's only 1 or 2 times per year where you really have to keep your nerve and perform under genuine pressure on timescales of seconds or minutes.

The kind of pressure where 'we need to get this feature out of the door by the end of the week' is a completely different thing altogether.

[wahnfrieden]

Dealing with outages is one time where I have to think on my feet in a tense and urgent situation, and occasionally write code.