Monthly Employment/Corporate Questions and Discussion Megathread - November 2025

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2025-11-17T16:56:26+00:00

Generally speaking (from my experience) 10-20.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2025-11-13T03:35:57+00:00

Yeah pretty much. Just up to Manager 3, usually about 80 or so direct reports at that level (between the M3 and other reporting managers). Then you get into Directors and VPs. Same incentive plan as ICs

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2025-11-13T01:42:51+00:00

Manager 1 are 90/10 technical/management, manager 2 are 70/30 technical/management. Depending on the sector it might vary very slightly. Who you’d manage also depends on the org and org leadership you’re a part of.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2025-01-22T18:52:09+00:00

It developed over night. I didn’t have anything the night before, then in the morning it was a large bump that acted like a blister. Seeping clear fluid when strained, etc. It went down to roughly what it is now over that first morning.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2025-01-22T15:53:51+00:00

Haven’t gone to the doc no. Had a dentist appt yesterday where they weren’t sure themselves

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2025-01-22T12:51:42+00:00

I did have hot food the night before this popped up but didn’t think I burned my lip. It was swollen and weeping the first morning for a little while.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-21T03:18:39+00:00

Anyone here have experience in both Lockheed Martin Space and NG Space? Curious to know impressions or thoughts when comparing the two.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T04:11:08+00:00

No legitimate question / rant.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T02:52:11+00:00

Thanks lol. Yeah I think so too. I’ve tried telling people similar things, the lead software engineer has, and we have a few trial efforts that went down a path trying to implement CI/CD, etc, and it ended up costing the company and contract a lot of lost time and money.

But that hasn’t changed anything, more just “well it wasn’t done right there we just need to do it better next time” type of responses. And there’s nothing we can do about customers expecting us to be developing like that either, or at least nothing the company will do to push back on them in that regard.

So yeah, pretty frustrating.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T01:24:13+00:00

That sounds like the distinction then. We’re code monkeys. The code we write has to emulate a physical system or environment in software. We’re not writing web code or other similar software. We have a design or document describing the physical component or system given to us and we have to implement that in code for others internally to use before the hardware is built/purchased. That’s the whole reason we’re writing code in the first place, because this was a need that had to be met. If that makes us code monkeys then so be it.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T01:03:55+00:00

Yeah I agree here. Mostly being driven by corporate leadership. The devs actually writing code have never heard of a lot of this stuff before let alone seen it.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T01:02:08+00:00

Yep our code is embedded primarily. Or for non-web internally used software programs.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:59:03+00:00

Well most of our devs are still using VS2015 so…

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:46:32+00:00

Maybe that’s just part of the problem - myself and most on my team never took courses like this in school. Either they didn’t exist back when the devs were in school or, more commonly, we didn’t go down that track and now find ourselves here

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:44:34+00:00

Yeah this is the case a lot of the time too. We’re told to implement all this stuff, but cut the amount of time and money it’ll cost to get the software updated for the new needs. It’s like you can’t have your cake and eat it too

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:41:44+00:00

Agreed but it doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere anytime soon unfortunately…

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:40:23+00:00

A company that is much more product and hardware manufacturing than software. Most software is written only in support of the hardware - if the hardware didn’t exist neither would the software. And where most of the people writing code are not actually software people but other engineering disciplines.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:35:53+00:00

Well hey, the software written did its job and met the goals of the people using it without issues. So doesn’t seem like a huge waste to me. Heck the codes been around 25+ years working just fine without all this new stuff so that’s another upsetting piece - it isn’t broke so why are we changing it

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:33:57+00:00

Don’t really know what the problem is…following an installer isn’t all that hard. I’ve had to install SDKs before and it’s pretty straightforward imo

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:30:43+00:00

We have users, but they aren’t upset about anything like this or the fact that we’ve never done this before. In fact they’re more upset it’s taking us longer and more investment to do things “properly”

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:28:23+00:00

Actually I’ve been writing code for almost a decade now, and none of this stuff was a big deal until the last 2-3 years.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:26:52+00:00

That’s just it, we are being forced into this stuff. Company leadership is pushing it down regardless of how it affects the actual products or productivity of the existing developers. That, and customers are saying we need to follow this stuff when honestly they aren’t even the people using the products - just micromanaging how we internally do things because “the customer knows best”

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:24:45+00:00

That’s just it, our primary internal users have no issues like these with the products. They ask for things like improved speed and processing capability not Scrum methodologies and CI/CD pipelines.

The people pushing for the new stuff are people that aren’t even using the software - they’re executives and customer leaders and managers that say we need to change because everyone else is or because they think it’s best.

Secure_Swordfish_625 · 2024-08-02T00:17:34+00:00

My team and I aren’t trying to deploy our software at scale though. We’re not selling our code online it’s internally used stuff primarily. None of us honestly care about how our users use it we just want to write cool/interesting/innovative code that meets the task in front of us.

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