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Imo if you are a stressed out swe, you should be working on software to automate/simplify stressful thing. And if people get in the way of that, then change em
by sesuximo 6y ago
Imo if you are a stressed out swe, you should be working on software to automate/simplify stressful thing. And if people get in the way of that, then change employers.
Software is not supposed to be super stressful — the machines should do the heavy lifting
I’m sure there are a zillion exceptions to this that ppl will point out
- vb6sp6 6y ago> I’m sure there are a zillion exceptions to this that ppl will point out It's not really "exceptions" that will be pointed out. The reality is that someone if going to have to stop automating\simplifying and actually fix the bug or implement the feature. Or in the worst case debug the "brilliant" automation from the really chill guy that left the company last year :)
- ttz 6y agoEngineers build things to make life easy. Business people rewrite the rules so that engineers have to constantly build. Order and chaos - primordial forces.
- cco 6y agoI would hazard that almost all stress that white collar workers deal with is not the result of having to perform repetitive manual task, but having to deal with the politics or performance demands in their workplace. Their boss demands unrealistic timelines, actively undermines them, their coworkers are difficult to deal with, etc. I've never met anybody that works as an SWE that is stressed out because they have to fix bugs or manually migrate DBs all the time, its nearly always the environment that is the root cause.
- thejellypen 6y agounrealistic deadlines and clients who think "playing rough" gets them more bang for their buck (it doesn't)
- eecks 6y agoHow much experience do you have?