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I've had that role twice! For me, perhaps I just haven't found the right place, it starts out as the best job I've ever had and then ends up being a terrible sl
by jaegerpicker 6y ago
I've had that role twice! For me, perhaps I just haven't found the right place, it starts out as the best job I've ever had and then ends up being a terrible slog. Developers stop caring, management does the math and finds it easier to have you on staff but doing nothing really important because you keep making the dev team fix their SQL injections or XSS and they miss features and blame the fixes that you pushed for, and then you spend 90% of your time chasing dev's to update their libraries and you want to harm everyone. It's just a tough road to work if you are at all a creative developer that wants to see something you have built. I REALLY wanted to love that job but even for good companies it's very hard to find a good situation in my experience.
- throwawaysecuri 6y agoSame here. You're just outnumbered, and because of that you're often seen as having unreasonable requests or point of view. I don't think anybody who works in a security team is happy, it's a shit job honestly. The less you do, the happier your devs are. And at the end of the day, you look back at the years of work you've done, and there's nothing to show. No building, it was just about pushing through friction.