My manager thinks full-day pair programming is great for collaboration, but I'm struggling with it. It feels like someone is looking over my shoulder constantly, which ruins my focus and leaves me totally drained by the end of the day. Should I tactfully tell my manager how this is affecting me? How do you all feel about pair programming?

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Pair programming is a good thing. Since you effected, then you can talk with your manager to sort it in a different way.

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I think it’s good in healthy doses

I was in this situation and felt the same way about it. A couple hours a week of pairing would have been fine with me, but all day every day was overbearing. I talked to my manager but that was the team's way of working and one engineer wasn't changing that. In the end I left for a new job.

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We don’t pair program all day on my team but we huddle quite a lot to get each other moving forward on tasks

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