One of the most frustrating aspects of being a software dev in non tech company

[Jason Voorhees]

As a junior/ mid-level dev in a non tech company you’re rarely consulted on decisions even though theh affect your workflow. Management buys an expensive 6 core MS SQL license for $40,000 because of the sales pitch and the fucker probably read on Google it says "Industry Standard" or something on the website when a MongoDB would’ve worked perfectly for the app's flexible data. You’re stuck wrestling complex SQL schemas instead of breezing through with NoSQL. It is like being given bulldozer when all you asked for was a shovel. all because someone in a suit didn’t ask you. It’s not just money it’s the time you waste on tools that don’t fit.

Then there’s the frustration of missing frameworks. Need Google Maps API for a delivery app’s live tracking. It’s just $2-$5 per 1,000 calls for something that would actually improve and make the app work better but nope they dont have the money even though they did when theh droped 50K on some useless shit. Want Material-UI for a slick UI ($60-$200/year)? Nope, you’re stuck with outdated Bootstrap. And instead of Vercel’s instant Next.js deploys. they forced me to build build a CI/CD pipeline from scratch with Jenkins all because they already bought it so they force me to use it. You’re forced to clean up their bad calls, no input allowed. That doesn't happen now that I am in software company but damn it used to be frustrating. . I have worked with many retards like this and have had many arguments with managers who just dont want to understand. A

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@FaceandBBC @loyolaxavvierretard @gooner23 @User28823

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Pakicel

 

[Toggle9877]

How'd you manage all that stress?

 

[FaceandBBC]

Yeah, I’m not built for this shit.

 

[esoterik]

> sql license
> your solution... is mongo?? yeah your staying a junior nigga

 

[Jason Voorhees]

How'd you manage all that stress?

I cussed the shit out of my manager once. Like full on rage. Told him fuck you to the face. I thought I'd get fired but they cant replace me so they had to put up with me. That manager stopped making eye contact and talking to me and I had to directly report to his boss after that

 

[Jason Voorhees]

> sql license
> your solution... is mongo?? yeah your staying a junior nigga

You are very low iq if you dont understand when a relational and non relational database is supposed to be used.

 

[esoterik]

You are very low iq if you dont understand when a relational and non relational database is supposed to be used.

no way you dont understand the meme or your also joking with me

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@JohnDoe @SecularIslamist @imontheloose @widdi

 

[Klasik616]

The cost of being useful

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Haven't you had to deal with shit like this? @User28823

 

[User28823]

i admire ur continued curiosity

i am so burnt out of tech i quiet quit basically a year ago, have 0 desire to advance far in this career

the worst part is hand holding this one senior on my team who is legitimately fucking retarded, i almost think hes trying to piss me off on purpose

and to be quite frank the only reason he still has a job for certain is due to ethnic nepotism

 

[Jason Voorhees]

i admire ur continued curiosity

i am so burnt out of tech i quiet quit basically a year ago, have 0 desire to advance far in this career

the worst part is hand holding this one senior on my team who is legitimately fucking retarded, i almost think hes trying to piss me off on purpose

and to be quite frank the only reason he still has a job for certain is due to ethnic nepotism

Honestly I get that burnout this industry can really suck the soul out of you. But personally still enjoy it. I'm doing mostly DevOps type stuff right now, a lot of screen-staring, but I actually like SDE work too. There's something satisfying about building stuff that works, even if the environment can be a mess

 

[User28823]

Haven't you had to deal with shit like this? @User28823

theres not much i dislike in my current tech stack, enterprise java and a couple of sql databases which is smooth sailing in my books

 

[gooner23]

Had a problem like this at a well known legacy company that nyccels glaze they manually inputted a bunch of information from different teams with no consistent formatting that constantly caused outages and nothing was done about it but it stayed like that for 10 years supposedly

Don’t stress about it always be ambiguous tbh should only care about what your manager thinks about it

 

[Pakicel]

@Pakicel

Yeah. I def get you. You should consider yourself lucky you got across to Jenkins. We didn’t even get version control until last year and had to make this crude CI / CD pipeline (using this SQL templating tool) in days.

It’s kinda over for me but you will ascend hard in your career.

 

[psychomandible]

Ofc the indian is in it

 

[widdi]

Agreed. The good thing is that they don’t whore you out too much and you can do your work at a reasonably slow pace

 

[ozuhdm]

job is looksmin, neet is law