Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig

Re:Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another ... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:00AM (#37914255)

Working at Apple was about as fun as I would expect a job to be when I started in 1995. It only got better the first decade working there (as I became more proficient and began to feel I knew what I was doing).

It started to suck though as the company inverted and became top-down again. Management experimented with "agile" development, required a certain percentage of code coverage with BS unit-tests, code reviews became a thing, teams started insisting on style guidelines....

I was just thinking today that I would not recommend to my daughters to go into the software industry. The Golden Age, as far as I'm concerned, came and went. It was long before Covid though.

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Re:Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another ... by danesparza on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:23PM (#37919358)

I started work in the early 90's as well.

I'm genuinely curious: You don't think unit tests are a good thing? Or code reviews? Or style guidelines?

Or is it just a matter of how those things were implemented that rubs you the wrong way?

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