I stay because I love it. Coding is my passion, and I'm grateful every single day to be paid well to do something I enjoy. I'm not entirely convinced that oth

I stay because I love it. Coding is my passion, and I'm grateful every single day to be paid well to do something I enjoy. I'm not entirely convinced that other professions don't suffer from the same negative aspects either (bad management, terrible deadlines, cargo cult-ing, some boring tasks). For me, outside of maybe working in pro audio, I can't imagine doing anything else. > "For some reason, companies do highly mistrust my skills and degree. Other jobs, equally well paid, do not require this." I think if other jobs were able to directly test your technical skills in an interview they probably would. I personally hate whiteboard style interviews as well but, having sat on both sides of the interview process over the years, I see a lot of value in seeing people's code. Personally my preference is a take home coding test, but interactive coding is fine too if the problem isn't too tricky. Probably this is because I am self taught and don't have a degree to lean on that colors my opinion so take my words with a grain of salt I guess.