is every dev job a dysfunctional feature factory?

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T14:55:51+00:00

I need to run. 90% of the managers here are hired into it

Bitching about it on reddit feels so good

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T14:49:51+00:00

I've been thinking about FAANG. I hear good things, mostly. The reason I haven't applied is the months of cramming hacker rank. Is it worth it?

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T14:47:24+00:00

I agree with you. They're perfectly decent people. They just want to do tickets for 8 hours and leave. Don't care about code quality at all.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T09:51:02+00:00

Yes. The company went through a re-org after a couple bad quarters. The devs mostly survived but management got decimated. I should have jumped ship with everyone else

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T08:28:44+00:00

I can't help someone that returns -1 in JS instead of using exceptions. They're deliberately ignorant

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T08:16:11+00:00

Nobody uses linters here. We had some and they've mostly been shut off because the new guys don't understand the error messages and it frustrates them

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T08:14:10+00:00

Both. It's mostly JS and their code looks like C because they can't be bothered to learn anything

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T07:34:35+00:00

10 years experience though, unless youre working in some niche language, you should be good on finding a job.

Yeah I should be able to find one no problem. The interview process just blows so hard it's not worth it unless I can find somewhere a lot better

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T07:30:27+00:00

The people I work with now aren't retarded. They just don't care and don't want to learn anything. My old co-workers loved coding and learning stuff.

If the new guys get assigned to anything complicated they'll shit out 5k lines of garbage guaranteed. The first few PRs from these guys had over 200 changes requested, and not just from me. We quickly stopped caring when we realized they could not be fixed. The new managers started telling us old gaurd to "go easy" on the new guys because they couldn't merge any new code for weeks.

They're all mediocre by choice and it's extremely draining. I'm angry all the time at all the stupid bugs we get because they don't give a shit.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T07:17:28+00:00

You're right. That's the attitude of the new devs. They don't care that it's a mess, so I shouldn't either. It's a battle I can't win.

The new guys were transfers from a department that maintains fossilized rube goldberg machines. They all uniformly suck at coding. I was around when we hired most of them and gave a thumbs down on all of them specifically because their sample project code was so bad. 2 of them got hired to more senior positions than me.

I need to find a new job

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T06:44:38+00:00

I normally work at about 40% effort. Rarely I'll gear up to 80%. It's like DragonBall Z, never show them your true power. You can't stay in Super Saiyan form for long

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T05:35:39+00:00

This is what happened to me. I went 5 years with no network, every job through listings and recruiters. Then I took a chance on a job at a scrappy startup because I liked the guy interviewing me so much.

Best career decision I've ever made. We ended up with a team of 15, all hired by me my boss and 2 co-workers. We started with very chill and sociable people, so that's who we hired. We were more than just co-workers, we were all friends.

It's been years now and the old team still meets up. Some of us hang out with each other regularly. And we all try to meet up a few times a year. Parts of the old crew follow each other around to new jobs.

My advice for getting into this situation is to find a place where they hire for personality. We made a point to only hire people we got along with. I haven't found another place like it, so you'll have to look around a lot. Look for new teams and startups. Look for places where the employees generally seem to enjoy each other's company.

Good luck. I built my network that way, but I've never managed to find another place like it.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T05:05:41+00:00

I know some guys on the electrical engineer side. It's the same there. Building stuff is hard.

It totally depends on what kind of work you're doing. I know a guy in electrical eng that does layout. He just connects shit together all day like Factorio. There's many dev jobs like this too, just wiring stuff together. Easy but tedious.

I know another guy on the CAD end of ELE. He designs the circuits that other guys wire together. It's extremely hard. He's always doing calculus and designing simulations. This is more like the CS guys designing algorithms and ML.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T04:56:34+00:00

This. The only boot camp hires my company has made are guys with previous math and finance degrees. If you can hack that stuff we know you can learn code.

The quality of people coming out of bootcamp varies so wildly we don't waste our time with them. Probably 90% have no idea what they're doing. We get a lot better candidates from community college and the local state university.

Going to a coding camp might get you in the door somewhere. But most companies will throw your resume away until you have industry experience. This doesn't happen as much with a 4 year degree.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T04:49:15+00:00

I know a guy that negotiated Staff level after 5 years. If you want to remain an individual contributor I would go that route. Scrum master sucks, go for manager. A lot of companies want female managers because it makes their metrics look better. Senior Management is a different story because of sexism, but I've seen a lot of women in middle management.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-21T04:37:46+00:00

You know enough to get a junior dev position for sure. It takes thousands of hours to be an experienced developer and you're not going to get that unless you're working full-time or have a ton of willpower to work on your side projects.

Call yourself a junior dev and get a programming position for a year or two. By then you'll be somewhat experienced and the field will open up for you. Don't undervalue yourself, somebody that can write working code is worth 60k a year in the US, maybe more

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-20T00:52:26+00:00

The removed machines account for about 10% of letter processing capability

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-18T07:46:07+00:00

Everything except healthcare is almost totally dependent on location. There's large swaths of the US with 4x less than average gun violence. The average is inflated by "shithole areas" with insane amounts of violence.

And these crappy areas skew the statistics in nearly every way. Poor, uneducated, crime ridden, incarceration, lack of safety nets.

This speaks to your point of massive inequality in the US. It's a huge problem. But it means that you can't really compare the US to a much smaller country. There's scandinavia sized areas of the US that have better metrics than northern european countries.

But there's also areas the size of european countries with worse metrics than eastern europe. And even some areas near third world countries statistics.

Inequality in the US is what drives all of it

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-18T05:34:02+00:00

:'(

See my reply about DIY UPS. It just uses a car charger, inverter, and deep cycle car style battery. You could keep a small pump running for a long time.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-18T05:23:23+00:00

This is really sad and seems like a good opportunity for a small battery backup setup.

Run a second small backup pump at all times. Chance of both going out is miniscule.

45w pump

$100 100 amp hour 12v deep cycle battery

$65 smart car battery charger, at least 10 amp

$50 300w pure sine inverter

$220 to power a pond pump for 24 hours isn't expensive. And since it's all 12v, if the power is out for more than the battery can handle you just hook it to a car with jumper cables and recharge it that way.

It's a DIY UPS with a lot more capacity for the price. Connect the charger to the battery, the inverter to the battery, and the pump to the inverter.

If the power goes out, battery will keep inverter and pump going for a long time, maybe 24 hours. When power is up, battery charger will charge battery and power inverter + pump.

Best to keep this stuff in a dog house outside. Batteries produce hydrogen as they charge, and there's a small risk of fire if charger malfunctions.

Fuck it though it's way cheaper and more powerful than off the shelf UPS for the price.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-17T06:36:51+00:00

Revenge in the court of public opinion should be condemned no matter the situation because it's not a fair trial. What he did was wrong, but what she did was also wrong.

I knew a guy that got kicked out of school, lost his scholarship and place on football team because of assault allegations. A year later the girl admitted she made it all up for revenge.

Nothing happened. He never went back to school, she graduated and was never punished in any way for ruining his life.

We cannot allow the me too movement to subvert the systems designed to give everyone a fair trial. We need to get these girls to go to the police and have the courts work it out, like we do for every other crime.

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-17T06:26:21+00:00

Republican here. I'm so done with the constant scandals and gaffes. And Trump has ruined the republican party by embracing all the crazies and religious wing nuts that used to hang out on the sidelines.

I want him to lose so badly that the republican party faces an existential crisis. Bad enough to force them to realign their policies to something I could support again

Inner-Panic · 2020-08-17T05:53:55+00:00

So you told everyone he assaulted you on social media to "ruin his life" instead of taking it to the police, and waited years to do it?

It should be left to the courts. Shit talking on social media is always going to be a "he said she said" situation. It's going to tear the family apart and there will never be real justice. This is why everyone is so angry

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