I love this post. It just screams: Follow your heart.
Why I have left Samsung
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Re: Why I have left Samsung
#12I interned at a big telcom and worked at a bank. Amount of crappy software that needs to be used is mindboggling. Amount of money that is spent to license that crapware is even more mind boggling. There is a real market for these beautiful b2c software products that can make their services store data on the bigco's servers (as opposed to their own - security is a concern) and write decent, mostly .NET interface to co…
There is a real market for these beautiful b2c software products
Careful. "Beautiful" software isn't necessarily a large addressable market in B2C...right now. Not saying you're wrong, but bigco's software packages value security, safety, and supportability over beauty, usability, and time-to-build. It's sad but it's true.
Re: Why I have left Samsung
#13Well the grass is always greener on the other side. Did you already have this awkward moment of missing the corporation?
Re: Why I have left Samsung
#14It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons. Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk. Seeing the company you work fo…
> Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots
Samsung shareholders may disagree with you there....
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#15This comes across to me as more of a rant, than a constructive exit description from a company. When hiring new candidates, and doing background checks alarm bells would go off if I saw people whining about their previous jobs in a blog post. Be professional, accept that some jobs are shit, and find a new one. This post will do you no favours in the future.
There has to be some sort of balance between criticism and "maintaining a professional attitude" (whatever that phrase means -- I have never understood it). A lot of times "be professional" is used to silence criticism of truly horrendous software development practices.
Being forced to use a stack of horrible software including IE strikes me as a perfectly valid professional criticism. Possibly, this might be because I worked at another company (also in the mobile space) that had exactly this sort of atmosphere of bureaucracy and using a contrived, corporate software stack for their development teams.
I don't have a company of my own right now, but if I did, I would have no problem hiring someone who ranted about an environment that is toxic to good software development. (I guess I would prefer it if he also gave an instance where he tried to improve that environment and failed, but from experience I know that it often tends to be a futile endeavour.)
Re: Why I have left Samsung
#16It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons. Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk. Seeing the company you work fo…
> Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots Samsung shareholders may disagree with you there....
No I am sure, and they are producing more wealth than I (probably) _EVER_ could. But doesn't mean it's a fun place for a designer and/or software engineer to be.
It means it's great to be on the board, manager or shareholder.
OP is a software engineer.
Re: Why I have left Samsung
#17It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons. Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk. Seeing the company you work fo…
> Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots Samsung shareholders may disagree with you there....
No, share holders care about share prices. Which in big part in large companies comes from existing products/services + incremental work. Big leaps come from acquisitions.
You need managers to keep the status quo going. Come in, run affairs as usual and leave.
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#18so he left corporation because it was, well, a corporation? welcome to the real world =,=
Most people don't realize Dilbert isn't an exaggeration until they join the workforce.
Re: Why I have left Samsung
#19I love this post. It just screams: Follow your heart.
Nice to hear this:)
Re: Why I have left Samsung
#20Well the grass is always greener on the other side. Did you already have this awkward moment of missing the corporation?
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