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It was a little tongue in cheek, but yes. I had large grievances with the software culture there, but after I got sign off on the project to modernise our build
by Nexialist 2y ago
It was a little tongue in cheek, but yes. I had large grievances with the software culture there, but after I got sign off on the project to modernise our build process, I couldn't bring myself to abandon ship in the middle of trying to fix it.
After everything was finished up, I was feeling burnt out and realised that I'd held on for too long at a company with a fundamentally bad culture that wasn't going to change just because the tech did, so I moved on.
- gnat 2y agoThank you for the clarification. Because you said “it took a small team … and then I resigned”, it was unclear that you were part of that small team and instead made it sound like you left because the problem was fixed.
- dfee 2y agoFor what it’s worth, it wasn’t unclear when I read it.
- thanksgiving 2y agoI worked at a company recently where I couldn't get a team to do the fairly simple task of cleaning up our git ignore (so we wouldn't have to painstakingly add certain files to the index every time we changed something) so I take it as a massive accomplishment moving to git within two years. If I know anything about work, I doubt this is all they did for two years. Business doesn't care you have an important project. They will bug you to do other things.
- duggan 2y agoYeah, maybe it's one of those reading between the lines things, but I think anyone familiar with burnout would understand. There are few efforts as truly thankless in many organizations as fixing things.