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omg yes. i've taken way to many jobs where, after alot of very considered discussion about the kind of work i do, and how I dont consider generic devops worth t
by convolvatron 5y ago
omg yes. i've taken way to many jobs where, after alot of very considered discussion about the kind of work i do, and how I dont consider generic devops worth the time. happy to debug our code in production, but i'm not first line support or software install/configure.
yes, they assure me, they really want a software developer in the classic sense. this is an absolutely perfect fit.
and when I show up? welcome to the team, why dont you shadow joe who is going to be upgrading Kafka kafka this week.. at Google they actually pointed me at the nightly error queue for some AI pipeline and told me my job for the next 6 months was going to be pulling out the errors and manually fixing the input until it passes.
the real issue is that they just dont really do software development. so much so they dont even know what it looks like.
- jollybean 5y ago"the real issue is that they just dont really do software development. " No offense, that kind of seems to be your issue, not theirs. In large orgs if there are 10 'technical but not really dev roles' for ever 2 devs ... that's the reality of the world we live in. It's maybe 'sad' that we call can't write code, but that's maybe not quite an 'industry' problem. On the other hand, using giant fragile stacks with a million dependencies and systems that are an 'inherent mess' ... well that's maybe a little bit different and motivation is different because you might be actually wasting your time. But in reality there is a ton of work to be done and most of it is not glamorous.
- convolvatron 5y agosounds like you would be wise not to hire me. if only more people understood that software development isn't operations.