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May 4, 2022 · Fundamentals

What Engineers Really Spend Their Time On: Insights from Retool’s 2022 Survey

Retool’s 2022 survey of 600 engineers reveals that open‑source code is now essential, developers copy hundreds of lines weekly, and major frustrations include testing, slow SQL, and lengthy code‑review delays, leaving engineers with only about ten hours of deep work each week.