Re:Interview with Jacob, a Site Reliability Engineer who wor...
by Benjammer on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:47PM
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>No one "gets" what you are doing
3 years ago, I shifted from fullstack/framework web development to native mobile development. I have suffered from this exact, specific type of isolation continuously ever since I made the move.
The technical work is the most challenging, interesting, and rewarding stuff I've worked on yet in my (10 yr) career, but I have yet to find a position (across 3 companies) where I am not working in isolation fully owning and maintaining one product app by myself, with (intermittently) maybe, 1/4 of the normal input from a designer and/or a PM.
3 years ago, I shifted from fullstack/framework web development to native mobile development. I have suffered from this exact, specific type of isolation continuously ever since I made the move.
The technical work is the most challenging, interesting, and rewarding stuff I've worked on yet in my (10 yr) career, but I have yet to find a position (across 3 companies) where I am not working in isolation fully owning and maintaining one product app by myself, with (intermittently) maybe, 1/4 of the normal input from a designer and/or a PM.