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My brother has been a software engineer since 1996. After working exclusively at mid-to-large tech companies, he started working at a very large national retail
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
My brother has been a software engineer since 1996. After working exclusively at mid-to-large tech companies, he started working at a very large national retailer in 2019, mostly because he wanted to move closer to family and that was one of the few good employers around.
He now says that this has been the most fulfilling job he's had. This retailer was working on ancient systems that, while old, were exceptionally well-designed. Moving these systems over to a modern tech stack was challenging but also incredibly rewarding.
- tfandango 4y agoI work in finance and a lot of my job is getting the right numbers to come out of the system in the desired timeframe. To my son that sounds boring, and he asked me if I'd switch to work on VR or something flashier. I told him that there's a lot of challenge in solving the problems that I do, and I wasn't sure that optimizing rendering or something in VR would be more rewarding or not (not to mention I'd have probably been laid off by now anyway). I suspect the challenge and reward is the same but using different tech stacks.
- Ancalagon 4y agoConversely, after having worked for WMT as a software eng myself, that was the least fulfilling dev job I've ever had.