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Here is an example of well known agile teams: windows team, iOS team, android team, etc. I'd be curious to know where you work and what you do. If it's not rela

• wayn3 10y ago
  I'm a "software engineer". My "bosses" trust me with solving non-trivial tasks that are interesting and not yet well understood. Maybe that makes me more of a scientist. I prefer to think of me that way. Why anyone would work a job where they have to disengage their brain is beyond me. Maybe its out of necessity. That being said, I'm not an employee and don't aspire to ever be one. Nobody has the authority to tell me how or what to do. I believe that murican law specifically bans companies from telling their contractors how to do their job, but you'd have to ask a lawyer about that. So no scrummy agility for me, soz. My academical background is physics/math (specifically, a bunch of computational stuff and topology/string theory if that helps). not things you can pick up over the weekend though. Contrary to popular belief, I apply that knowledge at work regularly. I somewhat agree with your sentiment. If that's really what your job is like, you should get out of that. unrelated: whats the deal with your name though? if you are in YC, you can't really be complaining about low level software engineering tasks?