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Reminds me of; ‘Loads of men are killed in war, women most affected’
Or more commonly: Stocks decline today on news of unemployment. I sure feel sad for those stocks.
Clueless VP: “It’s remote that’s at fault! If everyone were just in the same location, and we could do team-building exercises then everything would be fine!”
Not sure what the author of the article was thinking putting those two statements next to each other.
At all three orgs, there are developers rapidly burning out and the biggest problem is that despite major organizational crises, ranging from mass layoffs to mass turnover and the inability to fill half the seats on any given team (especially with team leads and senior talent) to enormous projects that have crept up in scope from 8 people to 60, there has been no acknowledgement by management that anything is even wrong.
At the company with layoffs, we are still working on product roadmaps from before, but now entire teams responsible for certain product dependencies are gone.
At the company that cannot fill half the seats, there are no truly senior devs and only two juniors and one intermediate/senior (me and I am not willing to fill a senior role). Our skip manager literally said "assume we have a senior dev or team lead for planning." They have not been able to hire one for 6 months now.
At the company with the project exploding in scope, it can take several weeks to get a meeting with key people as there are just so many wires crossing.
Not even a "we understand that X is not working" from management. Just them repeating goals and deadlines in all orgs.
It points to developer apathy. I sometimes wonder if that's just the global feeling at the moment. Everyone that's working on widget X suddenly doesn't care because of all the crises going on. Rampant inflation, extreme inequality. By continuing to work on widget x they are just supporting more of the same. Think people want society to change a bit before moving forward with being happy.
Adjacent thread in a different market, currently at the top of r/medicine: "Is it just me... Or do things feel off?" https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/w9ufnt/is_it_just...
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> Senior devs are nowhere to be found through regular applicant pipelines. They seem to be leaving as a result of reaching out to friends/former colleagues. Which makes sense. Everyone learns that the best way to get jobs is skip the recruitment pipeline by using your network. The recruitment pipeline is so miserable at most companies, why would you put yourself through it unless it is absolutely your dream job? Even…
>Everyone learns that the best way to get jobs is skip the recruitment pipeline by using your network. >Way better to make contacts with people where you want to work and just skip it. Thing is, this process has to be a net positive or it's just unsustainable. Seems to me more and more that networking is just nepotism and doesn't give the best candidates the jobs they are looking for. Add in some title inflation and…
Or it has to achieve the bare minimum: filling positions with anyone who makes it through the sieve.
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The question from LaunchDarkly, btw, was as follows (asked to "500 software developers across a range of industries and job titles"): > Have you or someone you worked with ever left a job due to pressures from over minimizing mistakes (i.e. avoiding rollbacks or failed deployments)? [0] ...Which I also would not be comfortable summarizing as "minimizing deployment errors" [0] https://resources.launchdarkly.com/ebooks…
What does "over minimising mistakes" mean? I would expect that the target for 'mistakes', especially serious ones' is zero (while accepting that it may be asymptotic).
> A report from software platform LaunchDarkly revealed that nearly 7 in 10 developers (67%) have left a job due to pressure around minimizing deployment errors or know someone who has. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the statement, but this is a biased-as-hell source for this statement given that LaunchDarkly's product is feature-flag-management (to minimize deployment errors).
My biggest source of burnout is really from mundane failures in processes: flaky tests that fail for no good reason, and obscure bugs that are hard to reproduce. These things take up 90% of my time and I feel like a code janitor, rather than a developer. Any company dealing with burnout should consider this.
Today, we learned that we will no longer be using much of the "Power" Platform...but we have all wasted a year of our lives "trying".
Now that we are done, I look forward to getting back into the gym before using "traditional" tooling that actually works.
In the future I will be more careful with the projects I work on - with a preference for mature technologies. Erlang, Java, RDMS, Rust etc. sure. Latest shiny from tech company where people hate their jobs - NO WAY. They will bring us all down.
It points to developer apathy. I sometimes wonder if that's just the global feeling at the moment. Everyone that's working on widget X suddenly doesn't care because of all the crises going on. Rampant inflation, extreme inequality. By continuing to work on widget x they are just supporting more of the same. Think people want society to change a bit before moving forward with being happy.
Adjacent thread in a different market, currently at the top of r/medicine: "Is it just me... Or do things feel off?" https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/w9ufnt/is_it_just...
Every day... For decades...
At the end what have built? What can I show my kids? There is no bridge the I made with my hands, no building, nothing permanent. Whatever I made has been cast aside in the next redesign.