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You better believe you have had a truly blessed career. In most places the moment you say "this will take 67 minutes and not the 65 minutes you thought it woul

You better believe you have had a truly blessed career. In most places the moment you say "this will take 67 minutes and not the 65 minutes you thought it would", all sorts of idiots that know nothing about programming will come and dispute your every technical decision. Exaggeration of course, but not far from the truth. Worst of all are the CTOs that already sing only the CEO's tune, come and review your entire project in exhaustive detail, conclude that you did 99% of everything correctly and well and exactly how they would do it, then proceed to fire you over the missing 1%. Again, kind of an exaggeration, but again, not far from the truth either. In most places people are treated like interchangeable cogs. Better hold tight to your warm positions, it's not a given you'll find a better one if you figure that you must leave. I dream of a workplace where after I prove my worth -- 1-2 months -- I'll just be left alone to produce and correct code and protect the company's interests without being second-guessed, even though I am one of the most productive devs there. I dream of that. I might cry if one day I realize that I've actually landed such a job. And I am a senior. 21 years in the profession. Food for thought for you. It's all about who you know and drink coffee with, apparently. Your abilities as a professional barely matter, it seems.

BaculumMeumEst 4y ago
I’ve only worked in a few large companies where nobody even cared about code quality unless you brought down a production system with a bad change or something. You’re seriously saying you’ve had 21 years of constantly being second guessed? What kinds of places are you working at?
- pdimitar 4y ago
  I've been a contractor in the last 7 years and I've come to dearly regret it. Never has my work been so second-guessed and ripped apart. I suppose my price was too high for them, not sure. I'm still reflecting and have no good conclusions to offer. (But part of the time I was in bad health and my work quality suffered. So that explains one percentage of the cases at least.)
- MyneOutside 4y ago
  I've been doing this 15 years and I've been dealing with second guessing or managers acting like we don't know what we are doing the whole time. The problem being the managers are MBAs who know little or next to nothing about software development. They don't like being told differently from whatever narrative they come up with and primarily solely focus on cost. The company I work for considers themself a MSP. The parent company is a sales company selling non software products. In any case, yeah it happens.

BaculumMeumEst 4y ago

I’ve only worked in a few large companies where nobody even cared about code quality unless you brought down a production system with a bad change or something. You’re seriously saying you’ve had 21 years of constantly being second guessed? What kinds of places are you working at?

pdimitar 4y ago
I've been a contractor in the last 7 years and I've come to dearly regret it. Never has my work been so second-guessed and ripped apart. I suppose my price was too high for them, not sure. I'm still reflecting and have no good conclusions to offer. (But part of the time I was in bad health and my work quality suffered. So that explains one percentage of the cases at least.)
MyneOutside 4y ago
I've been doing this 15 years and I've been dealing with second guessing or managers acting like we don't know what we are doing the whole time. The problem being the managers are MBAs who know little or next to nothing about software development. They don't like being told differently from whatever narrative they come up with and primarily solely focus on cost. The company I work for considers themself a MSP. The parent company is a sales company selling non software products. In any case, yeah it happens.