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> i've never worked for any software company that "wasn't about the users" Startups are going to tend to have devs focused on users and "quality is everyone's

> i've never worked for any software company that "wasn't about the users" Startups are going to tend to have devs focused on users and "quality is everyone's job" etc. In fact, you should never hear the phrase "that's someone else's job" in a startup. Big corp jobs, especially at non-software companies will tend to treat people as isolated cogs in the big machine, a machine you're told by everyone is "someone else's job" to understand and steer. The article isn't dishonest. It's that the experience of "being a programmer" varies very widely. Our field has no professional standards.

rustyboy 4y ago
> Big corp jobs, especially at non-software companies will tend to treat people as isolated cogs in the big machine, a machine you're told by everyone is "someone else's job" to understand and steer. In my experience at a massive company this is spot on, as a mentor it feels like I spend more time on teaching new hires to realize that we're not a "technology company that does X". We are, in fact, a boring X company that uses technology when it's needed. Not everything has a complex technical solution. Sometimes the best thing you can do, even as a software engineer, involves changing processes, organizational structure, or bad habits. When I read these "software" articles and books it feels like a radically different world than what I do.