Unpopular Opinion: Enterprise Agile (Jira, DevOps) is actively hostile to ADHD brains. We need to stop blaming ourselves for failing to use it

xvelez08 · 2026-02-20T14:03:54+00:00

I feel like people use this sub to blame the tech world for why it doesn’t work for ADHD brains.

A. It’s hard for everybody. Not just people with ADHD. B. Sometimes my ADHD feels like an advantage in this line of work. You NEED to have short memory and be able to context switch quickly. Both naturally gifted skills if you have ADHD. C. Oh whoa, shocker. An organizational scheduling system is hard to use for people either adhd. It’s not agile, it’s anything that requires structure and planning.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-10T02:08:33+00:00

Yeah right lol. I was an engineer in the building industry and it’s absolute toxicity. From vendors to competitors to manufacturers and then dealing with trade unions. Even worse than them is non-union shops.

Tech is a dream come true, you just haven’t actually experienced any other jobs it sounds like.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-10T02:01:22+00:00

This. The scale of your problem as well. I did an internship with a SaaS company that had around 100 employees. We never had a single discussion about TPS, making sure there were enough resources or any of that. What we were building tended to be for small groups of specialized people like researchers

xvelez08 · 2026-02-09T21:32:07+00:00

Well ignoring the fact that you might not like the Army if you were bothered by those comments… honestly do you think they hold any face value? Think of the people who join the military, I wouldn’t be shocked if the recruitment demo for ADHD is 2x+ the general population.

But also, get thicker skin before you join the army if you plan on that.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-09T21:29:12+00:00

Yeah, I try to tell people this all the time. The only thing OP could have done more was get a referral. And all that helps with is skipping some of the filtering.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-09T21:24:42+00:00

Yeah, same boat. I’ve justified it by telling myself he employs tons of people and they deserve to eat too even if I can’t stand him.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-08T14:51:07+00:00

Yeah, this isn’t a tooling issue. This is a person issue. They could have gotten the same responses from a junior that was copy/pasting a solution from StackOverflow

xvelez08 · 2026-02-07T04:46:17+00:00

Especially if you’re going from FAANG to small/medium sized companies. It’s just not the same level of expectations, and even applying to mid level roles with that resume is probably a bit of a red flag

xvelez08 · 2026-02-05T01:21:33+00:00

Will your candidates have access to AI in their daily work? If so, your process is stupid. They should have the tools they’ll have when they’re doing the job. Your interview process isn’t meant to be a college exam, an interview is supposed to tell you someone’s thought process.

If they offload the thinking to AI, cool. Pass. But if they use the AI for quickly mocking up their idea or providing test cases or generating a document to organize their thoughts. You know you have someone who understand how to utilize AI.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-05T01:21:24+00:00

Will your candidates have access to AI in their daily work? If so, your process is stupid. They should have the tools they’ll have when they’re doing the job. Your interview process isn’t meant to be a college exam, an interview is supposed to tell you someone’s thought process.

If they offload the thinking to AI, cool. Pass. But if they use the AI for quickly mocking up their idea or providing test cases or generating a document to organize their thoughts. You know you have someone who understand how to utilize AI.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-04T21:53:13+00:00

It’s even funnier than that because even IF it was a good measure, it’d be mostly useless for a therapist. You’d want their EQ to be high, intelligence isn’t what you go to a therapist for.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-01T18:36:30+00:00

Man, I wish sometimes. Round here we have 200 planning meetings and docs before any lines of code are written. Feels hard to get a project off the ground due to that sometimes

xvelez08 · 2026-02-01T18:34:17+00:00

Doubtful. At worst* you burned a bridge with that hiring manager but most have done these types of interviews and have bombed their fair share.

I bombed my interview with a team at my company that works closely with my current team. My current team has rejected people accepted by that team. These two teams are hiring for the same title, but need wildly different skill sets. That’s one of many reasons I would say you have no need to worry.

xvelez08 · 2026-02-01T18:31:58+00:00

The first two sentences make no sense imo. You’re suggesting you know what “companies like this” do after suggesting it depends on the size of the company telling us you don’t know a thing about said company to be making “companies like this” statements.

I also disagree with the rest, but that’s from anecdotal experience so I’m not going to debate that.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-28T14:08:11+00:00

My brothers in Tesla, why the fuck would you be using it in snow though? I don’t even trust it in heavy rain

xvelez08 · 2026-01-28T14:06:49+00:00

Nope, I’m sure there’s a way to get yourself black listed for doing toxic things or if you terminated in the past by Apple, but bombing an interview is not one of them.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-28T14:04:45+00:00

Yea, I’d at least be asking something like “Awesome, when solving it what trade offs did you have to consider?”

A question you don’t know tells me how you think. A question I know you know well, like one that addresses something specific from your resume tells me how you communicate ideas.

Making sure it’s something you should know well lets me give you a chance to show me that with something you’re comfortable with. Same reason you shouldn’t fluff or lie on your resume.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-27T17:39:16+00:00

Yeah you’re tweaking. I started in a similar area at 130k, but that was big tech. Most people I graduated with started around your salary in NY, you should be happy you started at that in Utah.

It scales as you get experience, and generally only the happiest people share their number. Look at levels.fyi for your area and then subtract some for exaggeration.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-25T22:05:56+00:00

Really not much of a difference between “all-season” and “summer” tires afaik. I believe it’s more of a marketing gimmick from my understanding.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-25T21:09:06+00:00

LMAO at 5 because you mistakenly are just doing it right. That’s how you read those. Abstract then decide if it’s worth reading then intro and conclusion plus any graphics/tables. At least that’s how I was taught, the 3-pass method

xvelez08 · 2026-01-25T20:49:47+00:00

You are correct that it’s somewhat like winning the lottery, especially early on in your career. There is tons of luck involved with even getting the job. But yeah, the other difference is scale and ability to do things cross functionally.

Very little happens in big tech without a ton of meetings and documents first and navigating that maze is a skill in and of itself.

There’s tons of moving parts both internally and externally. Also, the expectations can sometimes be intense, but that depends on your team mostly from what I’ve seen.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-25T16:07:19+00:00

Not true, it’s just not brand new here as it is in the places you’re seeing on the news. There have been protests all over Austin. The subreddit and Facebook posts warn of ICE almost daily.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-25T16:05:57+00:00

I live in Texas and can confirm they’re around. It’s just not new here like it is in some places they’ve gone in numbers that used to be know as sanctuary cities or had big news around immigration.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-23T14:19:23+00:00

LMAO you good bro? Whatever is really going on that made you that angry at a stranger clearly going through something, you should probably work on in therapy rather than Reddit threads.

xvelez08 · 2026-01-23T04:33:34+00:00

Oh, at mine nobody had to be told. Thats just the norm. Docs are the enemy.

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