Ask HN: Am I the only software engineer unable to build anything?
My company has bought hundreds of 3rd party systems and glued them with bubblegum. I should be thinking how to improve the situation and developing but 90% of the time I am running around the office trying to find who is responsible for what. Some weeks I even do not write a single line of code and any change in the current system configuration takes weeks to get approval from some stakeholder...