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And enterprise software development has been going in the opposite direction. I work for a $100 billion company. Some days, I want to stab myself and throw mys
by pcurve 13y ago
And enterprise software development has been going in the opposite direction. I work for a $100 billion company. Some days, I want to stab myself and throw myself out the window.
- chaz 13y agoIn these situations, I believe there are two types people: A: "Wow, things are really messed up. I'm out of here." B: "Wow, things are really messed up. There's opportunity everywhere." Either can be right, depending on the person and situation.
- pcurve 13y agoActually A and B are same person. Just two different phases.
- derefr 13y agoThere are two Bs, though: one sees opportunity to sell change. The other sees opportunity to perform arbitrage against the inefficiencies.
- dominotw 13y agook coach.
- nigelsampson 13y agoThat age old saying, "Change you job, or change your job."
- beat 13y agoI'm a B, for sure. I'm trying to create new tools to deal with the "things are really messed up" problem... in part because I can create a working business and get myself out of the enterprise, and in part because I genuinely want to make this industry better. What I like about what I'm building is that it changes the human/computer ratio in debugging and problem-solving for complex systems. Have computers do what computers do well, so people can do what people do well. That's the core of my approach to building software. A big part of the reason enterprise development sucks is because debugging is so manual. Automate parts vulnerable to automation, and engineers won't just be more efficient - they'll be happier.
- nikatwork 13y agoAt a megacorp, as a developer, you have as much chance of changing the culture as you have of stopping a hurricane with a fart.
- CmonDev 13y agoOpportunity to fix other people's mess at the expense of your health (since you are not likely to get dedicated time for refactoring) and have a "thank you", while CEO gets an oversized bonus?
- ebiester 13y agoI find enterprise development pretty fun these days. Now that many of the easy things are done, we're being asked to do complex things with the expectation of a fit and finish like the apps they're used to using elsewhere. But enterprise is so varied -- some places are amazing, some places are terrible. The trick is to find a group with whom you love going to battle. Find people who are looking to continually improve. People who believe in the campground principle -- leave code better than you found it. People at every skill level who are willing to get better. If that's not your group, find a group that is. Better yet, inspire that in your group. It's not about the company -- it's about the people with whom you sit at lunch. (Okay, and sometimes the business owners... yeah, sometimes they suck.)
- beat 13y agoI'm amazed at how many brilliant minds I find in the enterprise. Most of them are rolling boulders uphill. Sure, there's a ton of slackers and dead weight, but there are a lot of people who would be the envy of any startup.
- badman_ting 13y agoAll of us are rolling boulders uphill.
- AznHisoka 13y agosome of them are just pretending to roll boulders, but would crumble if others stopped :)