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My experience is complete opposite to yours. I've built at least hundred of little tools here and there to improve my productivity to the point where single ke
by npmisdown 5y ago
My experience is complete opposite to yours.
I've built at least hundred of little tools here and there to improve my productivity to the point where single keypress is what only needed in every other context to run specific scenario.
I've tried to give it to my fellow devs around to make their lives easier.
No-one seems to care enough even to try.
- stillicidious 5y agoIt sounds like you deserve a new job with more challenging peers. Environments like that can suck the life out of a bright flame Reminds me of a younger self going to interview for the technical team at a bank. I arrived full of youthful zest, thoroughly aced the interview. One of the interviewers, who already looked rather zombie-like, accompanied me to the exit. As I walked off he lit a cigarette and shouted after me, "don't accept the offer, this is not a place for someone like you!" Made a variety of friends over the years who have shared stories of that bank. It's notorious, the interviewer was absolutely right.
- grogenaut 5y agoI had a similar in 2000 during the .com bubble, interviewed at an ecomm company doing libraries, Amazon had not yet put them out of business. All c++ cgi. I asked a lot of questions about the stack and dev speed. They had looked at java but didn't have experience so were just going to plug along in c++. Their customers, libraries and book stores, didn't care. They passed. Reason was I was too much of a cowboy and they were afraid I'd rewrite their whole system within a few months of starting. I can read that many ways these days but I'm glad they passed ...
- BatteryMountain 5y agoI've also encountered this kind of apathy in other devs. I don't have a good answer what to do about it though.