Evidence that a dev shop's priorities are broken:
- Most everyone's time is spent fixing critical issues or bugs.
- No one person has a grasp on how everything works together.
- Devs spend more time unblocking simple tasks than designing or writing. And it's always the environment or lack of institutional knoweldge.
- Zero investment in learning or training.
- Not fixing existing problems while implementing asynchronous queues, LLM integration, and GraphQL.
I do not enjoy having to do critical* projects on a short deadline in coding languages and frameworks that I don't yet know very well.
*"Critical" only because some non-technical person told a customer that a POC project would be available to them by ${DATE} but nobody told the technical staff what that date was until Product realized the time and started panicking.
Once more no net...gotta love companies making deals with complexes and removing choice from a customer.
You should work here! We have great Infrastructure and IT Support! Everything you need is provided!
/Sarcasm
Is late #capitalism masochism a thing?
Because I enjoy suffering doing hard work and not getting paid enough somehow and don't know how to call that.
Or maybe I am just in love with dystopian worlds and live in one