I’m always astounded how eager the average software engineer is to trade away actual coding work for busybody overhead crap jobs.
Often the only way to progress is to take a role where you spend hours each day edging middle management.
What is “progress”?
Higher salary, usually
Because they give them nice titles, and young devs want the status of the title. :)
I tried being a manager but I hated everything about it. The dishonesty, the politics, the useless meetings.
I’m back in a development role now and I’m super happy and excited to start the day. Almost no meetings!
The corollary is - I’m surprised how many programmers are opposed to documenting what they’re doing?
I’m probably a freak, but I can’t stand working on something complex, being pulled away from it for a week or two, and not being able to pick things back up because it’s not documented well. Especially when I’m the only person to blame.
I also make scripts and programs with the goal to hand them off when I’m done. I’ve got more than enough to keep me busy at work without having to be the only person able to support my projects forevermore. Ultimately I’m still the go to, but I never want to be so critical that I can’t take time off, or that I’m effectively on call 24/7. I want the credit, but the whole point is to reduce responsibility by making shit more efficient and easy.
That’s not what I meant. You know that.
Heeey! It’s not, like… JUST that, okay?! No, I’m not in denial, shut up!
Can someone here explain why people use JIRA on purpose? Everything in it feels like garbage every time I have to interact with it.
Like I’d rather use GitHub projects. That’s how bad it feels.
company uses it?
This has been my only experience as well. Some company I have to work with uses it so I have to use it for their stuff for some reason, unless I can force them to do anything else.
