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Finding a good place to work at is hard. Welcome to the workforce, I guess? I only had one job in my life that I truly loved. Years later and the team is still

Finding a good place to work at is hard. Welcome to the workforce, I guess? I only had one job in my life that I truly loved. Years later and the team is still on a Slack instance, chatting it up once in a while. That said, the tech sector in general has changed. The elders remember when this job might have been unstructured and demanding but still fun. We got stuff done, and we felt productive. Now, the young engineers are settled with unnecessary complexity and the microservices grind. It's not you - it's stupid. It's just that the younger devs think this is how it is, but this is fairly new. In addition, the information firehose is absolutely overwhelming and draining. So there are some pretty big things happening at the same time. The good news is that the industry is reconfiguring to the "lean times" (read "regular, non-diamond-hands and non-ape-NFT economy), and it's going to get a little better.

BLKNSLVR 3y ago
> the information firehose is absolutely overwhelming and draining holy shit yes. And also contains only trace elements of usefulness. The problem is having to sift through the mud to find the hidden shinies. That's the draining part. I've taken to ignoring most of it until it reaches "stage 2 importance" at which someone will direct message me or come and talk face-to-face about it. Only then has it reached a worthy level of priority. Trigger warning: I have 2,957 unread emails in my 14-month-old mailbox (they stay unread until I've actioned them appropriately).
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- spacemadness 3y ago
  Some will be shocked to know that some of us have never had to implement a micro service in their lives. Some even work on embedded systems. That is to say, there is increasing specialization perhaps to take into account increasing the information overload. Sometimes in reading HN it seems like there is an assumption everyone works on backend systems or webdev or both.

BLKNSLVR 3y ago

> the information firehose is absolutely overwhelming and draining holy shit yes. And also contains only trace elements of usefulness. The problem is having to sift through the mud to find the hidden shinies. That's the draining part. I've taken to ignoring most of it until it reaches "stage 2 importance" at which someone will direct message me or come and talk face-to-face about it. Only then has it reached a worthy level of priority. Trigger warning: I have 2,957 unread emails in my 14-month-old mailbox (they stay unread until I've actioned them appropriately).

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spacemadness 3y ago
Some will be shocked to know that some of us have never had to implement a micro service in their lives. Some even work on embedded systems. That is to say, there is increasing specialization perhaps to take into account increasing the information overload. Sometimes in reading HN it seems like there is an assumption everyone works on backend systems or webdev or both.