> The sad thing is that it’s a joke that many people don’t seem to be in on.
On each of my job in my early career, I spent considerable effort weeding out people who got too used to such mode of work.
There are software developers with vastly different prior work experience, and expectations. People who do 30 minutes of actual coding a day, and ones who do 11 hours in coding sweatshops.
People who spent their entire career on 30 minutes of coding a day jobs, and think of themselves too much once they rise in seniority are the worst, and are the biggest source of dumpster fire/death march projects.
My third serious job in Canada: work in a consumer electronics trading company, upgrading their shipping system to get shipment status from DHL API, and submitting new ones. My predecessor, and ex-unit head wasted close to $1m, and more than a year, got SAP involved, invited many consultants, change managers, a project management contractor, and just been in the process of "fixing deficiencies" of his work by buying "enterprise SOA solution."
23 year old me called this bullshit on the second week, fought to have a serious talk with the company owner, rewrote a 10 years old steaming pile of PERL, and BASH scripts to Python, Postgres, and JS frontend in under one week, showed it working, and countered "You don't understand SOA!" protests of the unit head in front of the boss. He gets fired, I get a bonus the size of my annual salary.
Since then, my bosses always threw me as a "firefighter" on projects in crisis.
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We now have 2 major trends in the industry:
1. More, and more non-IT companies are trying to do software
2. A giant amount of newcomers to the industry who would've normally went working for banks, and management consulting companies eroding big IT companies as later grew with little regard to quality of hires.
On each of my job in my early career, I spent considerable effort weeding out people who got too used to such mode of work.
There are software developers with vastly different prior work experience, and expectations. People who do 30 minutes of actual coding a day, and ones who do 11 hours in coding sweatshops.
People who spent their entire career on 30 minutes of coding a day jobs, and think of themselves too much once they rise in seniority are the worst, and are the biggest source of dumpster fire/death march projects.
My third serious job in Canada: work in a consumer electronics trading company, upgrading their shipping system to get shipment status from DHL API, and submitting new ones. My predecessor, and ex-unit head wasted close to $1m, and more than a year, got SAP involved, invited many consultants, change managers, a project management contractor, and just been in the process of "fixing deficiencies" of his work by buying "enterprise SOA solution."
23 year old me called this bullshit on the second week, fought to have a serious talk with the company owner, rewrote a 10 years old steaming pile of PERL, and BASH scripts to Python, Postgres, and JS frontend in under one week, showed it working, and countered "You don't understand SOA!" protests of the unit head in front of the boss. He gets fired, I get a bonus the size of my annual salary.
Since then, my bosses always threw me as a "firefighter" on projects in crisis.
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We now have 2 major trends in the industry:
1. More, and more non-IT companies are trying to do software
2. A giant amount of newcomers to the industry who would've normally went working for banks, and management consulting companies eroding big IT companies as later grew with little regard to quality of hires.