This is the issue I have faced, and probably why I am leaving this whole mess behind. I still love engineering, but it's time to move to a mentor/consulting rol

This is the issue I have faced, and probably why I am leaving this whole mess behind. I still love engineering, but it's time to move to a mentor/consulting role. I've been in this game for over 10 years, and just can't be arsed to do any more testing. I once had someone ask me what a "cookie" was... Storytime: I used to work at a huge Japanese multinational (you can probably guess which one), and I rose through the ranks pretty quickly. After two years (which given their turnaround, made me pretty ancient), I left the firm for greener pastures. A few years later, they started a new sub-division, and a personal contact recommended me. It was a decent pay bump, and despite the negative press, I didn't mind working there, during my tenure. I figured I'd be a shoo-in. It was for a non-technical role (PM), but they wanted someone with a tech background, which I had. They then wanted to give me an online engineering test just as a formality. It was a quick test, and I solved it with little issue. Fast forward 2 weeks and I get a rejection email, saying that my code wasn't up to snuff, and they'd be moving on. It took everything in me to not write back saying, "Hey, go to your main service and log-in. Ok yeah, so the interface and client backend to your SSO and the user management services that millions of your users interact with each day -- I wrote all of that. Oh yeah, your absurdly complicated coupon system -- I wrote a lot if not all of that too."