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Large insurance companies have a lot of tech jobs and they are boring as hell.

• azemetre 2y ago
  The best is when you join in the middle of a modernization initiative and find out that the only thing accomplished after 5 years was the frontend was rewritten in react but missing 90% of the previous features, every team is using k8s for applications that barely get 20k users a month, and they fired all the QA staff because they are “dev ops” now.
  • ldjkfkdsjnv 2y ago
    and a bunch of the staff are secretly still using the old tool that was supposed to get replaced
    • superb_dev 2y ago
      Or a whole new team gets made to create “new tool”, but no one is given time to switch to “new tool”
  • bionsystem 2y ago
    They are the worst, been there a few times, even as "the devops" you get sucked into while(true) loops of tech changes and everybody rewrites everything all the time to be "cloud ready" and nothing ever gets to production and everybody burns out and leave. I just dodged a bullet recently interviewing with an old boss of mine who wanted to use container orchestration for a perfectly working set of 40+ apps. They use docker in VMs as of now already, but they absolutely want kube or swarm, the reason being that "it's too complicated to manage the capacity planning for the VMs". Yeah let's add an extra layer of clustering and complexity for internal apps that will never scale just so that you feel good about having "an orchestrator", because you don't want to take a couple days to look at CPU/RAM usage and resize your infra.
  • bicx 2y ago
    You and I must have worked at the same insurance company. Except my time was before k8s. They had a multi-million-dollar data pipeline rewrite that somehow turned out to be slower than the old one.