IDK how people look at the software industry beyond puff piece articles written by big tech-employed journalists and think “wow that’s someplace I want to work”
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Not sure what exactly are you talking about.
I thought, that coding would be one of the best jobs out there. (When it comes to pay, work and satisfaction, since you are actually creating something)
But I am just a dumb tester. What am I missing?
@LukeAlmighty It can be good if you’re working with good people on projects you care about or at least find interesting on a technical level. But that doesn’t describe the experiences of probably 95% of software developers who aren’t self-employed.
Also, the software industry itself is waging constant war against software developers, desperately trying to crush wages and expand the workforce by any means necessary. They want to turn software developers into inexpensive, interchangeable cogs and this is not only terrible for morale in a creative field, but results in terrible software.
@SecularBlasphemy It's not better in other tech related fields. I had a code review with a viet coworker and I was just thinking "your comments would be more readable in Vietnamese, fucks sake."
It's why I prefer working with Japs if I have to work with foreigners. Maybe that's because I used to live there (Kyoto, Kansai Prefecture).
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