Re:Ask HN: Stay at Big Tech or leave?
by icedchai on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:28PM
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Sadly, outside of early stage startups, most engineering jobs are a lot of boring work. Now and then, you'll have a super interesting project, but in my experience it's pretty rare. If you like the company, perhaps see if you can transfer to another team / department. I did that once and it bought some more time.
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This is true in any field. It's just another manifestation of the 80/20 rule.
In all honesty, even in my hobby projects (which I do because I find them inherently interesting and fun), 80% of what I'm actually doing is still grunt work.
Re:Ask HN: Stay at Big Tech or leave?
by streakofred on Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:05AM
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Trying to transfer seems like the right thing to do before jumping ship.
> Sadly, outside of early stage startups, most engineering jobs are a lot of boring work.
Yeah, I hear you. I would like to imagine that I'd be willing to accept some fraction of boring work, if there are some cool tasks to balance it out.