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Re:64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken serious... by Aloha on Monday January 28, 2019 @08:08PM (#19022788)
Not everyone lives in an agile world.

Besides, there are still politics to shield from, budgets to maintain, stakeholders to brief, paperwork to do - all stuff that putting an engineer on - would be an utter waste.

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Re:64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken serious... by democracy on Monday January 28, 2019 @09:50PM (#19023297)
Exactly, for some reason we got rid of PMs, then architects, then "devops" (as they understand it) replaced system administrators, and now as a software engineer you have to do much more, actually leaving less time for your actual are of competence.
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