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Software Engineering for an advertising agency gets pretty stressful. It pays well and it's fun usually but crazy demands from clients that account and projec
by pdenya 15y ago
Software Engineering for an advertising agency gets pretty stressful. It pays well and it's fun usually but crazy demands from clients that account and project managers don't push back on, constantly getting the creative for sites late and not being able to push back the development schedule, etc. I would describe my job as frantic.
- HeyLaughingBoy 15y agoMaybe I'm being pedantic, but if you can describe your job as "frantic" then I don't think you're Engineering anything. Sounds more like it's being hacked together and rushed out the door as soon as possible.
- gavingmiller 15y agoI've been in pdenya's situation before. It is very much a hack, and it lacks any Engineering period. I was at a shop that didn't pay their employees well and enticed them with big projects for big clients - really neat work in many cases. A lot of people working there were young and ambitious (ie new grads,) but they didn't stand up for themselves. The result is that inexperienced developers run projects that go over time and over budget, which results in lots of overtime (unpaid, because you're on salary) which leads to extremely high employee turnover. It's huge short term thinking, and I suggested as much when I left. But I'm sure management has that figured out and they've found a model that produces decent work and keeps the clients happy, so why change? Buggy code = more time charging out maintenance projects.