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If you find yourself in a job where the engineering culture doesn't suit you, immediately start looking for a new job. You don't have to rush into the next job, be as picky as you need to be, but don't continue doing stuff that go against your beliefs, or stuff you don't want to do. Changing culture is an insane amount of effort for lead positions, and an impossible one for anyone else. Respect yourself or your menta…
I feel like there are many paths to computation and I’ve met many people who have become functional technologists from various backgrounds. I think the most important thing to figure out early is do you like programming. Do you like this kind of thinking?
1. Software that is undeniably evil and has a net negative effect on humanity for money
2. Software that isn't directly evil but you'll be adding features that exclusively make it worse
3. Software designed to help the former two groups work more efficiently."
That sums it up pretty well.
Edit: unfortunately you’ll need to know Leetcode to break into a lot of jobs. Honesty just memorize solutions for two weeks. It sucks but it is what it is and it’s easier to go with the flow than get angry at it
"Unless you get really lucky, you are going to spend your life making one of three possible things: 1. Software that is undeniably evil and has a net negative effect on humanity for money 2. Software that isn't directly evil but you'll be adding features that exclusively make it worse 3. Software designed to help the former two groups work more efficiently." That sums it up pretty well.
Whatever you do, don't get into gaming.
i plan to start learning to code and making a game would be one of the final milestones on the loose roadmap i've set for myself -- i get it's complex but would love to know why you advise against it.
I mean, 90% of development these days is knowing what parts to glue together and where to get the parts. You're converting business rules into code: for the most part, it's really not that hard.
Want to help your friends get into software and don't know what to say? Tell them to go for it. Let them decide if they like doing it.
If you feel something is too complex to teach then do not teach that thing. Learn that thing better from experts who have simplified that complexity into an elegant framework. Then teach that thing.