Re:Ask HN: Decided I no longer want to be a SWE – what next?
by thiagovsdiniz on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @06:31PM
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I feel you. That’s not easy and you have every motive to be frustrated. Tech interviews nowdays are really strange, but also seems that you have burnout. Take a bit of therapy it helped me a lot
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Re:Ask HN: Decided I no longer want to be a SWE – what next?
by leeroihe on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @06:46PM
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Somehow they feel more degrading than usual - I'm fully open about the fact that my ability to "write from memory" has atrophied and many engineers are just better than me. It's just wild that to get a half decent job I have to do things like implement json parsers from scratch in 20 min...