> Then the next day the product ships, and you go home satisfied with how you did your job? Yes. Programming is typically a blue collar job in Japan. Making

> Then the next day the product ships, and you go home satisfied with how you did your job? Yes. Programming is typically a blue collar job in Japan. Making a device means design it, build it, validate it, and ship it. The factory doesn’t change anything. You don’t revisit it; if the company wants a new version you design the new device and yes, in the process grab some stuff from prior versions if you want. Obviously not every company works this way (e.g. programmers have more status at places like SCEI or Nintendo; some car companies do step parts of their designs) but if you look at most industry you’ll find it’s pretty much as I describe.