Take more time into learning technologies and stuff you find fun and call it work. It actually is work, but employers don't tend to see that. Make coding fun for yourself.
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#12Talk to your manager or find a mentor within the company and ask for advice. Rather than framing it as “my colleges are all slackers” frame it as “what am I missing?” At big tech orgs success can mean a lot more than coding. It’s possible you are not doing things the others are doing… writing specs, documenting, interviewing, planning, etc. the bigger the engineering org the more time spent communicating. It may be they are doing more testing than you as well. It may be that this isn’t for you and you should return to the world of tiny teams where you really can code all day and “feel” much more productive because the communication overhead is so low.
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#13You're working too hard. And you're stupid. You set your own high watermark super high, now you can't back it off without getting questions directed at you. At no point in your career is holding your peers to account part of the role of a developer. Get that through your skull quickly. Either find a job where you're under the hammer more and the comp is what you want or learn to live with this. Or work on your own pr…
Cynical take: being this much more effective than their colleagues won't get OP promoted, but it might get the rest of the team fired.
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#14Do something more ambitious that is bigger and more impactful than closing JIRA tickets.
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#15How are you sure your points are actually good/valid/roughly correct?
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#16Maybe you can do similar amount of feature/planned work as them then for the rest do off-the-record speeding up the compile times, or something else that could speed up the rest of the team.
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#17The fact that you are focusing on story points should tell you that ALL of you are doing garbage work.
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#18Your mistake is caring. Are you being rewarded for working much harder than your colleagues? Are they being punished for working hardly at all? Why are you working hard for the benefit of the company's bottom line? It's a big company, why do you care about its bottom line?
Your colleagues have the right attitude. They are doing the absolute bare minimum to collect a paycheck and go home. I suggest you do the same.
Caring about your job is only acceptable if your labor is sufficiently rewarded, you own the company, or if it's some kind of non-profit or public service job that actually benefits society. If you're working for a for-profit organization, the goal is not to work hard, but to be exploited as little as possible.
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#19A formula 1 race car is _much_ faster than a freight truck. However a freight truck can deliver a lot more goods across the country than an F1 car. Which is your big organization optimizing for?
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#20If you can convince them to sit upside down while they work then you can turn them into a 10x programmer. The inverse of 0.1 = 10!