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This isn't the same thing, but one of the reasons I quit my last job was because there was very little "real" work. Sure, there was "work." Basically, lots of p
by icedchai 5y ago
This isn't the same thing, but one of the reasons I quit my last job was because there was very little "real" work. Sure, there was "work." Basically, lots of pointless meetings and technical busy work: writing documents people rarely looked at, investigating 4 year old bugs that suddenly became important but nobody had a clue about, and, of course, writing more tests and refactoring a dumpster fire to fill the rest of the time.
- datatrashfire 5y agoI cannot tell if technology work has always been this way and I'm just too inexperienced to know it, or we are in the midst of a massive employment bubble. People are very excited about adopting new tech x for zero reason, writing lots of Jira/Confluence salad to describe it. But at the end of the day 0 justifiable business case. Just pointless developer evangelicalism and nodding business heads. From my first hand experience that for any of this VC money to actually work out, the real projects have to have just astronomical returns to make up for the rest.
- icedchai 5y agoDevelopers have always been interested in the new shiny object... the next new technology. However, the agile / jira / confluence disease is not related, and did not take hold until much later. There was a time without all that BS.
- datatrashfire 5y agoI think I'd be willing to take a pretty large pay cut to work at a company that does not tolerate this wasteful busy work. It's bizarre how it seems nobody really likes it, but we all collectively just keep it going as well.