I like this list. I’m at a Fortune 500 now after being unceremoniously dumped by a company that was trying to get themselves sold to private equity (If you watc

I like this list. I’m at a Fortune 500 now after being unceremoniously dumped by a company that was trying to get themselves sold to private equity (If you watch daytime television in the USA you’ve probably seen the old company, and likely never heard of my current employer). Being able to correct code on other teams if we’re blocked with a pull request, versus having no idea who owns the code and being actively stonewalled and ignored by people at the old place. Having documentation and business requirements written up vs being given source code and the old developer rage quit. Having a competent BA who is competent enough to read code vs having a BA whose job is literally only to ask me to update my tickets and badger me to write up the requirements to hide their own incompetence. Having good conversations about the tech we use vs feeling gaslit when mentioning a potential solution to a technical problem and having nobody respond or make eye contact. Realizing that everyone who had been there a long time had the personality of a whipped dog. My coworker had letters from his wife encouraging him letting him know he could do it if he just worked hard! Which I suppose worked until the entire dev team got fired a year after I did. I was really scared after leaving a great job and moving to that terrible one that I’d made a terrible mistake and most dev shops were just awful. Maybe they are but I’m glad I stayed where I am, I got an offer to make way more but I’m 100% sure I’d be laid off now due to covid-19 if I’d jumped ship. Based on my companies response to Coronavirus I think I might stick around for a long time.