Are You Depressed That The Industry Has Shifted Focus?
When I first got into the industry people were focused on the technical aspects of their jobs. We’d talk about how to write better code, new tech stacks, frameworks, what we need to refactor etc. Engineers and business analysts together knew every little in and out of the product they were building and took pride in it.
Now all I hear is people taking about their “career.” How to brand themselves, managing up etc.
New coder camp grads talking about how they’ll become an EM. Engineers brown nosing the LT, endless meetings and convos on process. Only time I hear about tech is when someone is overhyping it as their vehicle for “impact.” Zero fucks given about putting out great products, or actually doing the work personally to improve code bases. Even the people who do process have no idea of the how what’s or why’s of the product they are supposed to get built. I’ve personally been in situations where I had to explain to my PO the product she’s supposed to be building. Hands on engineers just totally checked out of this shit. Just keep getting pushed down on the org chart because they need the people who actually produce software to stay in their role. No value in the domain knowledge of the people who built the software in first place.
TC: 🥜 YOE: 10+
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If(a == true){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
Would have been mocked when I started. Now this’ll get that promo.
return isPowerOn;
The above makes it obvious what you’re returning. True if the power is on. False if it’s not. Done
Why should anyone work extra hard for a country that hates them?
The industry is more diverse than it ever was, people have more power over where they want to work and what type of work they want to do. Our products are more robust and serve peoples purposes better than ever. Of course we’re in doomed times /s