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Re: Ask HN: Is any senior dev reasonably happy with their job?

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I love mine. I've been here for two years and I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop; it continues not to. I'm a senior backend engineer in a healthcare startup, but I think the single biggest determining factor to why this place is so awesome is that my coworkers genuinely, complete respect each other. That manifests in lots of ways: - Arguing and infighting is nonexistent. When Joe proposes something and Jane…

that sounds awesome! We're striving to have a similar culture - care to share where you work?

Cc'ing another post:

I work at Amino. Here's a blog post from our hiring team that expounds on this a bit: https://amino.com/blog/a-letter-to-amino-candidates/

Not related to the subject at hand but still worth reading: https://amino.com/blog/struck-by-what-bizarre-diagnoses-in-m...

Re: Ask HN: Is any senior dev reasonably happy with their job?

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I have been doing this for more than 20 years and I am kind of tired of it. Maybe I am glorifying the past but when I started there was much less bureaucracy and management overhead. I/we got presented with a problem and then went off to figure it out. Now there are so many non-technical people micromanaging, evaluating, reporting, withholding information, counting story points and other stuff. Maybe SW dev just has…

> Now there are so many non-technical people micromanaging, evaluating, reporting, withholding information, counting story points and other stuff.

Ah, the Scourge Of Agile. I yearn for the day people see it as the micromanaging abomination it is and we can get back to treating developers like adults, not naughty children.

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