Re:Ask HN: Reasons to stay in Software Engineering
by ankurdhama on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:40AM
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In my experience: Software engineering will always be frustrating unless we remove all the intermediate layers of people thats sits between software engineers and the end-users/business. So if you can find such an organisation then probably you will find reason to stay in software engineering. Finding such organization would be really tricky.
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Re:Ask HN: Reasons to stay in Software Engineering
by superice on Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:08PM
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I work in such an organisation, albeit a rather small one (~ 60 people). It is absolutely not easy: some people are not cut out for it and would prefer a strict specification and focus on writing the best code, which clashes sometimes with delivering quick-'n-dirty customer value. Other people are just not that good in recognizing the patterns in businesses. I think our end result is better than that of most companies, but at the same time it is much more difficult to manage properly, so I can see why so few organisation take such an integrated approach.