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It's not about corporate loyalty - it's about passion to do good work without blaming others (colleagues, tech stack, corporate environment) for why you suck.

It's not about corporate loyalty - it's about passion to do good work without blaming others (colleagues, tech stack, corporate environment) for why you suck. Look, I've been creating software for 40 years now in a wide variety of industries and many, many tech stacks. The people passionate about doing good work simply do good work. That other guy? He's all bluster. They eventually wash out. Nowadays their strategy is to get hired at a FAANG and have earned enough to retire by the time they wash out. It's really pathetic and frankly I say good riddance to those people. I've seen many of them come and go over the years and the team is almost as better off after they leave. Meanwhile, if you're solving real problems real people are having and they're willing to pay for them to be solved then you'll remain employed.

zmxz 4y ago
> It's not about corporate loyalty - it's about passion to do good work without blaming others (colleagues, tech stack, corporate environment) for why you suck. This. I noticed many people talking about corporate loyalty, but you sir made my day, this was precisely my point :) I wrote a wall of text trying to explain what you explained in that one simple sentence, your experience is visible. Thank you and have a great day!
andrewmcwatters 4y ago
You could have just said that. It distracts from your message. I've worked at too many companies where hack job losers stuck around 5, 10, 15 years, insulating themselves with low enough pay and job security by not sticking out, keeping their head down, and creating an environment that breeds passive leeches. These lifers would create enough mess that would eventually be cleaned up by people who could read a man page instead of a Medium article and who eventually left for greener pastures because they too were interested in creating good work. You can be technically excellent and have enough brains to pay attention to the CPI-W. Records profits from corporates aren't for you and me, they're for the businesses themselves.
- taylodl 4y ago
  You're right - that is the other end of the spectrum. Those people make enough messes to guarantee continual employment - or so they think. Then they get RIF'd and they're screwed because their skills are obsolete. I've never understood those people either.

zmxz 4y ago

> It's not about corporate loyalty - it's about passion to do good work without blaming others (colleagues, tech stack, corporate environment) for why you suck. This. I noticed many people talking about corporate loyalty, but you sir made my day, this was precisely my point :) I wrote a wall of text trying to explain what you explained in that one simple sentence, your experience is visible. Thank you and have a great day!

andrewmcwatters 4y ago

You could have just said that. It distracts from your message. I've worked at too many companies where hack job losers stuck around 5, 10, 15 years, insulating themselves with low enough pay and job security by not sticking out, keeping their head down, and creating an environment that breeds passive leeches. These lifers would create enough mess that would eventually be cleaned up by people who could read a man page instead of a Medium article and who eventually left for greener pastures because they too were interested in creating good work. You can be technically excellent and have enough brains to pay attention to the CPI-W. Records profits from corporates aren't for you and me, they're for the businesses themselves.

taylodl 4y ago
You're right - that is the other end of the spectrum. Those people make enough messes to guarantee continual employment - or so they think. Then they get RIF'd and they're screwed because their skills are obsolete. I've never understood those people either.