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"Then just get your dream job; god, it's not that hard!" I invite you to search developer jobs in a large (3 million+) metro area that is not San Francisco, Se
by feoren 4y ago
"Then just get your dream job; god, it's not that hard!"
I invite you to search developer jobs in a large (3 million+) metro area that is not San Francisco, Seattle, or New York. Developer jobs you will find:
- Shitty ad-tech company
- Knockoff ad-tech
- Shitty, knockoff ad-tech
- Fintech, but shitty
- Fintech, but even shittier
- Fintech, but actually a scam
- Fin-ad-tech
- Fintech for dogs
- Adtech for dogs
- Giant telecom where you will be put in a prison of a narrowly defined role where shitty developers go to slowly die
- Remote office of a FAANG where you can be put in a prison of a narrowly defined role doing shitty ad-tech to help an evil psychopathic hundred-billionaire get even more of a death grip on all aspects of our lives, but at least you're paid well
- (Rarely) Internal developer for a company that is actually doing something useful and interesting, but where you'll end up maintaining a shitty out-of-support enterprise system built on a base platform that does nothing where the real business logic is all embedded in their inner-platform key-value tables by engineering interns.
- Fintech
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoHehe, I really like this answer. I feel a bit cursed and also lucky at the same time in my current role... I was given ownership of a project that is solving a $100M problem at a big company, but now that it is working well... random people from other teams are showing up to take control of it and kill it with their idiotic ideas.
- tshaddox 4y agoAnd I suppose the alternative is to start your own company, take VC money, and thus become one of those shitty ad-tech, knockoff ad-tech, fintech but shitty, fintech but actually a scam, etc. companies? But at least you'll probably end up owning >1% of the company!
- feoren 4y agoI guess I'd say if your idea revolves around shitty ad-tech or fin-tech, then no, that's not a good answer. But if you have a genuinely new niche ... maybe? It's a little like "burn this codebase and start all over". It's a gut reaction we all have, and 90% of the time it's a bad idea. But that 10% of the time ...