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Different people find different things exciting/sexy to differing degrees. Some people like building stuff that others can see. Some people like building stuf
by nbm 12y ago
Different people find different things exciting/sexy to differing degrees. Some people like building stuff that others can see. Some people like building stuff that others will use. Some people like building stuff that makes other people build stuff faster. Some people like building stuff that is highly reliable, really fast, really scalable, or really efficient. Some people even find improving advertising really exciting - they expound on how ads can be win-win, and even that they can only find their full effectiveness when they are, or something like that.
I don't think anyone is "avoiding" any work - there's just tons of work that needs to get done, and people mostly choose to work on that stuff that interests them. One could say that product engineers "avoid" infrastructure work and infrastructure engineers "avoid" product, but I think that would be inaccurate in most cases.
- logicalmind 12y agoIt is a great luxury to be able to work on what you like, especially as a dev. Unless you're a well-known person, I don't think it's that easy to work on what you like, even at google. At least not anymore. Hopefully you guys at facebook can keep the MBA's off your backs long enough to do more cool stuff!