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Ask HN: I (used to) love programming, but I loathe standups, scrum, agile, etc.
Just like the title says.Basically, I'm ready to change careers if that's what it takes to escape agile hell.Advice?
You seem to be saying there is an area of softwre engineering that is not saturated candidate-wise.
Well, don't hold us in suspense -- go ahead and tell us specifically what sort of engineering role you were referring to here!
no way. i just cannot believe that's true. i'm based in the U.S and i'm currently interviewing ... and spending my evenings studying to be better prepared for upcoming interviews. they all do the same thing: crazy programming puzzles.
i believe what's happening is that companies have become extremely choosy because there is a never-ending stream of candidates. they subject to insane technical interviews and reject good candidate after good candidate with the hope that maybe the next will be just a tiny bit better. And if not, well, there's more after that.
i'm convinced that in 2020 the software engineering profession is absolutely, positively supersaturated.
i'd say more, but i need to stop procrastinating and get back to the video about dynamic programming that i was taking notes on.