Re:The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job
by denkmoon on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:24AM
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I agree. I am currently in a job where I was brought in under the pretense that while being a developer I would be involved with design work. All my previous jobs, I was involved in design work. That pretense was a lie, I haven't done any architectural design work in over a year now. I simply implement the designs of people that haven't been near a development environment in over 10 years.
"This server will talk to that server" is great, until your designer specifies you're going to use passive FTPS and forgets that the particular FTPS server you're talking to has no mechanism to restrict its ephemeral port range, and your customer isn't down for opening ports 1024-65535. "It's just FTP, we'll just open the FTP port".
I am miserable because of it. I want a say in what I build, I was promised a say in what I build, and I have no say in what I build.
It's the same with testing: it's in huge need but few want to do it, and similar traps are laid there: "come work for us, you can do what you want, but first let's do not what you want".