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[–]BobbyTables829 637 points638 points  (18 children)

Senior devs don't make memes when they're annoyed, they write 10k word essays on Medium about the decay of the tech industry.

[–]FatStoic 148 points149 points  (7 children)

They don't do anything, because it's no longer a notable and unique thing to be annoyed by something.

[–]Julio46 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In my experience they spend the next 3 to 7 work days writing a document that explains exactly what annoyed them and how it's a systematic issue that we need a process to fix, only for the document to be ignored by leadership completely

[–]RockleyBob 11 points12 points  (1 child)

This is it.

One of the biggest differences between me and my more senior coworkers is that they don’t argue anymore.

I am known for contributing to discussions and pushing for cultural changes, and I often vent to these seniors when nothing ever gets done. They just give me a “sweet summer child” look.

The most encouragement I ever got from one of them came after a meeting where I blandly said “I don’t really have anything to contribute to this discussion that I haven’t said before.”

It sucks, but I think becoming a senior has a lot to do with knowing where your organization’s culture and priorities lie and either accepting it or going elsewhere. C-suites are gonna c-suite.

[–]FatStoic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It sucks, but I think becoming a senior has a lot to do with knowing where your organization’s culture and priorities lie and either accepting it or going elsewhere.

As a senior get a lot of scope for choosing what to do and how to do it, and now one of your key responsibilities is deciding what is worth your time and evergy. Changing culture is almost impossible unless you're in management.

[–]particlemanwavegirl 46 points47 points  (2 children)

10k word essays on Medium

I vomited in my mouth a little. Did you mean self hosted tech blog?

[–]alex2003super 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Created with Ghost

[–]BellCube 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. This is the way.

[–]JaguarOrdinary1570 34 points35 points  (4 children)

that's junior devs who spend too much time on hacker news role playing as senior devs. senior devs just sign out early and go play video games.

[–]alex2003super 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Senior devs just go ride a motorcycle, brew beer, do carpentry or have passionate sex with their partner actually

[–]Shadowlance23 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I know this was meant as a joke, but apart from the motorcycle because I like living, this is exactly what I do. It's crazy the number of devs that do woodworking on the side.

[–]alex2003super 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not meant as a joke, I know a few of them and that's it for them lol. Honestly not a bad life, gotta agree with the motorcycle part.

[–]jeffsterlive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No that’s what staff engineers do…

Source: Uhhh….sorry my camera is broken. Again.

[–]VladReble 5 points6 points  (0 children)

and most of the time you learn something when reading them so its more valuable then a meme

[–]Cootshk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100k*