You've got the wrong impression of what is "boring" tech. A setup out of a rack in a rando datacenter isn't boring, it's frustrating. Saying doing things the old way is boring, is like saying sending your wife out to carry water from the well in a jar on her head is boring. We've got running water now, that has nothing to do with double-digit YOY growth, it has to do with actually reliably and comfortably deploying a…
Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs?
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#63Small design studios. They still exist and they often need developers to develop “regular” websites using very down to earth stacks. There’s a ton of business that simply need basic websites and those still need to be developed by someone.
This is a great answer. At a small studio you'll absolutely see some LAMP servers being run in a corner of the office and some deploy pipelines that boil down to "FTP into the server and then copy and paste the files into the www directory."
Most businesses don’t need anything complex. It’s just basic sites and emails.
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#64Banking is pretty desperate for talent, probably because no one wants to suffer the complexity of the problem domain. I showed someone the models we use to track a customer implementation and they thought we were insane for even thinking this is a good business to be in. Because the problem domain of banking sucks so much, the tooling is necessarily simple and "unsexy". We like things that fit into a single VM/folder…
I assume it's mostly because not many decent software developers want to suffer Banking's work environment
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#66They’re outside of the “tech” industry. Look at companies 200-300 on the Fortune 500; their IT group uses boring tech. Just fair warning: you seem to be under the assumption that “boring” means “straightforward and just makes sense.” It does not. If you’re looking for that… good luck! Update if you find somewhere and I’ll join you.
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#67Banking is pretty desperate for talent, probably because no one wants to suffer the complexity of the problem domain. I showed someone the models we use to track a customer implementation and they thought we were insane for even thinking this is a good business to be in. Because the problem domain of banking sucks so much, the tooling is necessarily simple and "unsexy". We like things that fit into a single VM/folder…
Anyway, the group I worked in was an acquisition with a completely different tech stack. So we were basically completely ignored except for the occasional saber rattling that we should be moving to blessed tech stack. After which we would say, sure give us a project with time and budget reserved and we'll get right on that. Cue the crickets. Also, my group was PCI burdened, so we quickly became exempt from any of the afore-mentioned cloud stuff, because they were afraid we would make the cloud in scope for PCI.
Now, most of the people who I knew were decent have left. But it wasn't about the technology -- the paycheck is enough to get through that. It's mostly around back-to-office mandates. Which is a strange stance, after the company spent who-knows-how-much moving all our machines to be virtual desktops that we could log into from anywhere.
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#69Banking is pretty desperate for talent, probably because no one wants to suffer the complexity of the problem domain. I showed someone the models we use to track a customer implementation and they thought we were insane for even thinking this is a good business to be in. Because the problem domain of banking sucks so much, the tooling is necessarily simple and "unsexy". We like things that fit into a single VM/folder…
> Banking is pretty desperate for talent, probably because no one wants to suffer the complexity of the problem domain I assume it's mostly because not many decent software developers want to suffer Banking's work environment
Re: Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs?
#70You've got the wrong impression of what is "boring" tech. A setup out of a rack in a rando datacenter isn't boring, it's frustrating. Saying doing things the old way is boring, is like saying sending your wife out to carry water from the well in a jar on her head is boring. We've got running water now, that has nothing to do with double-digit YOY growth, it has to do with actually reliably and comfortably deploying a…