Im at a big tech company now. I’ve learned a valuable set of skills in my lengthy tenure, but I think your FOMO is unwarranted.
We’re bogged down in tech debt, legacy systems, endless migration projects, and worst of all, management chains on their way out being replaced by people managers. They’re in technical roles, bringing culture from legacy mega corps like IBM, or IT managers from cost center organizations who don’t give a shit about the product or customer experience.
My company’s corporate culture was unashamedly aggressive in doing big things, even if it meant burning people out.
Nowadays, teams working on critical projects are getting even more pressure than ever from incompetent people managers who don’t understand even the basics of what their team does.
And then you have entire fleets of teams who aren’t working on critical projects. They sort of just exist. Imagine a $400K cushy job where you write 10 lines of code in an entire quarter. Not just you, but your entire team just does random “investigations” every sprint. They ship nothing. It’s just a token job because a director or VP is focused elsewhere.
We’re bogged down in tech debt, legacy systems, endless migration projects, and worst of all, management chains on their way out being replaced by people managers. They’re in technical roles, bringing culture from legacy mega corps like IBM, or IT managers from cost center organizations who don’t give a shit about the product or customer experience.
My company’s corporate culture was unashamedly aggressive in doing big things, even if it meant burning people out.
Nowadays, teams working on critical projects are getting even more pressure than ever from incompetent people managers who don’t understand even the basics of what their team does.
And then you have entire fleets of teams who aren’t working on critical projects. They sort of just exist. Imagine a $400K cushy job where you write 10 lines of code in an entire quarter. Not just you, but your entire team just does random “investigations” every sprint. They ship nothing. It’s just a token job because a director or VP is focused elsewhere.