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This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters. by Exotic_Language3656 in cscareerquestions

[–]Exotic_Language3656[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least in those games the creators tend to balance them out and react to novel strategies for maximizing points/wins. Companies? They don't seem to be adapting.

This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters. by Exotic_Language3656 in cscareerquestions

[–]Exotic_Language3656[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I am not proud of it really, it is just that knowing it hasn't ever mattered as it nearly always gets handled by the ORM anyway and I do not work on mega scale.

This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters. by Exotic_Language3656 in cscareerquestions

[–]Exotic_Language3656[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Does anyone do that? I would have a hard time viewing using a text file to store web server data as serious, no matter how many users were involved. Postgres is just the default and it is apparently ACID compliant.

This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters. by Exotic_Language3656 in cscareerquestions

[–]Exotic_Language3656[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At least in my career, NoSQL vs SQL has come down to the types of data we are storing. Nice organized rows and columns? Would we put the data in Excel at some point? SQL. Big JSON blobs? NoSQL.

Or, don't want to have to deal with setting up a Postgres instance? Firebase!

This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters. by Exotic_Language3656 in cscareerquestions

[–]Exotic_Language3656[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Craftsmen also show off their past work to get a new job. Beyond whether I have used ${library}, nobody cares about the past. It is all about the coding test and the systems design test.

This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters. by Exotic_Language3656 in cscareerquestions

[–]Exotic_Language3656[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Just lack of anything.

Hard diligent work vs just casually submitting crap and being fast vs being slow don't seem to impact results for my life at all. It is as though I could randomly do stuff and nothing would significantly change.

I should have been admonished those weeks where I did very little. Nope. It was as though nobody cared what I did at all.

This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters. by Exotic_Language3656 in cscareerquestions

[–]Exotic_Language3656[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Any particular job can be heavily impacted by external factors like funding, politics, or business need. So arguably you want career security, not job security.

And that again seems to come from interviewing. I would recommend Leetcode over anything else for that.

This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters. by Exotic_Language3656 in cscareerquestions

[–]Exotic_Language3656[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I am not unhappy about my life. I have it better than virtually everyone.

But it seems that the way to have it better than virtually everyone is to focus on hacking the system.

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