Bored of working on React apps and very simple “problems”
I’ve made a career for myself as a full stack web dev. I love design and UI, and I love architecting back-end solutions. overall, I’m pretty good at my job. However, lately it’s just been boring. It’s no longer very stimulating and/or challenging. Most of the “problems” being solved in my space could be solved by junior developers. I’ll be moving into a Lead Engineer role soon, but I’m not even sure if I want to stay for the promotion. From my perspective, my current employer just doesn’t have the kind of work that I feel I would be happier doing. I really love having lower level control in languages like C++ or Rust. I’m constantly learning new things in my free time, and exercising my brain with personal projects. Should I try to seek out more difficult challenges within my current employer? Or will I have greater success branching out and maybe working on some embedded systems?
Btw lower level control isnt as challenging as you think, grass on this side isnt greener
You are wrong
I never said how challenging I think it is. I spent a good chunk of time in C++ on my own time, and at the very least, it’s more challenging than front end web dev.
Most CRUD stuff is boring af apart from some scaling challenges
React is pretty boring, I agree.
And Ember's pretty bad
Ember is so bad ass, it’s solved problems that you didn’t even know you have.
With aws, azure and gcp we never ever need to focus on storage, scalability and reliability from groundup. They are made so easy that these are just apis too just like your app. If you still want to work on system level stuff, there are only a few companies that do it but things move slowly as most of the teams are matured. It's not that you need a new storage system or caching system or container system for every product. Also these systems are huge and you'll be working on a tiny bit of it.
TC?!
No
Ah, makes sense why you don't want to share.... You're either in MN or India
Curious what’s the TC for a lead engineer at Target in Minneapolis?
Looks to be ~$60k
Lead SWE is ~$120k
Can you give me your job. I just want to work on react apps all day
Yeah but actually it does get monotonous after a while. I had a countless number of technologies I thought I can do lifetime all day but I got bored within a year lol
Maybe start a YouTube channel if you are really good and make some $s and name and fame
Did you just watch the video uploaded by freecodecamp channel?
No , why ?