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”
@deprecated
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?
@SecularBlasphemy @deprecated
I would ask where you work, but that would get to the doxing territory. But damn, that is both idiotic, and terrifying.
Good luck with the offshore programming team that codes cheap, has incompatible work hours, lots of vacation time, and every time you ask them to do something you can practically see a monkey's paw creepily curling a finger towards the palm.
@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).
@LukeAlmighty @deprecated
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.
Muh agile is another attempt to turn sw development into an assembly line job and squeeze more out of devs. It’s garbage, but whenever people point that out, advocates of agile keep saying it’s “not done right”. Quite similar to how the consistent failures of gommunism, “weren’t real gommunism”. If nobody can “do it right” then it’s a system unfit for actual humans.
The last time the West was good at engineering and built the foundation of current tech (moon landings, teh internet, unix, VMS, cool cars), when people became engineers because they liked to build, not because they thought they’ll make bank after a bootcamp. And they were led by older engineers, not clueless MBA assholes.
@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.