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myJankIsBetterThanYou
I don't care if it doesn't follow your patterns, it is literally the most optimised and most stable part of the entire codebase.
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Startup people are built different, they know literally everything in SWE, or have at least heard of it, it's the best bootcamp one can think of.
you get crazy but hey, at least you know a bit of everything and knows how to deal with pressure lol
Only thing you don't learn to deal with, is the bureaucracy that comes with bigger companies and organisations. Pick your poison.
Wdym I need to wait 6 months to download this application because it needs to go through 4 different teams on 3 different timezones?
That's awkwardly right
I'm thinking of moving to startup work after a bunch of my career being the solo dev for an entire academic department.
It seems relaxing, and like there'd be some push for better programming practices there. I'd only have to work on one project, not six, and there'd be less only theoretically solved maths, and no one would hand me a whiteboard full of equations and say "hey, can you just implement this in python"
Oh, brother, how I feel you... I have worked in RSI (Research Software Infrastructure) for a decade, one of the most thankless jobs there is out there, you are responsible for the technical outcome of dozens of project, academics still treat you like shit. I am also trying to jump ship, I wish you (us) good luck!
I'm a bit less RSI now, my current job is in a dev team in the research bit of a hospital, but my old one was "Keep the biology department running"
I had to drill new holes in an expansion card at one point, so it would fit in the old, creaky server that everything ran off. One technical fault was caused by a literal bug - a grasshopper crawled out of a lab, under a switchroom door, and into one of our other servers, where it shorted itself on the network card.
I have seen things, man. Seen *things*
One technical fault was caused by a literal bug - a grasshopper crawled out of a lab, under a switchroom door, and into one of our other servers, where it shorted itself on the network card.
This is gold OMG.
Thank God I have always been on the abstract side of things, so never had to physically interact with the servers our stuff runs on, but rather beg for more VPSs and other resources on a bi-weekly basis. Even though the place I work at has a sys admin it doesn't do more than notarize this kind of requests and forward them to those responsible and maybe takes care of domains, VPN, DNS, etc., that kind of stuff, so we do everything, from k8s to simple scripting. It's a shitshow tbh, e.g. the secops guy has no idea about sec and learns by doing using blog articles, data engineers don't even know how to string together a simple ETL pipeline, and I have to show them how, new hires have consistently been shit for the last two years, and so on.
Such a toxic place, my God.
So, I used to do just the code/abstract side of things, and then we couldn't get the stuff that we needed, so I ended up running our department's small cluster of servers, too, which took less time than dealing with central IT.
It also turns out IT do not like requests like "Ok, so, we have a new gene sequencer that can spit out 20TB of data per 24hrs, and we'd like to buy another 4. Can you help us figure out the networking infrastructure there?"
(It turns out the answer is to drill a lot of holes in walls, and run a fiber cable per sequencer to a processing server stored in a very warm supply closet. It's not a good answer, but it's an answer)
Also, great to meet a fellow RSI - I do enjoy the work, too - implementing new things keeps the chaotic ADHD mess of my brain interested, I've been lucky to have a few supportive bosses, one of who taught me how to get people assigned to pointless committees, which has been weirdly useful.
But I think it's probably time for a move - the rung above me I have to start wearing shirts with collars and attending a lot of meetings, and using words like KPIs, and honestly I'd rather drink random shots from our chemical cupboard than do that.
Yeah, I kept going because I am passionate about RSI in general, and doing research didn't cut it for me, but I love supporting it the best way I can.
But I think it's probably time for a move - the rung above me I have to start wearing shirts with collars and attending a lot of meetings, and using words like KPIs, and honestly I'd rather drink random shots from our chemical cupboard than do that.
That sounds like Silicon-Valley-ization (when a tech venture starts looking like a Silicon Valley startup). They tried with us to instill this new kind of work culture, but failed miserably. I wish you best luck in either countering this or jumping ship ASAP.
This is why all startups succeed and everyone working at a startup is a billionaire.
*Puts off dark glasses and drives off into the sunset laughing *
:D
I worked in 3 startups, the amount of basic knowledge that people who only worked in massive companies lack is impressive.
I don't mean to say that you should all know devops and be full stack engineers, but i saw people with 15 yoe who don't even grasp the basic concepts of anything outside their focus area.
I’ve just moved from startup to enterprise, it’s so peaceful here lol
I'd rather employ someone from a fairly successful startup than any of the big tech pencil pushers.
But their startup probably wasn't successful, hence they're getting a new job with you.
Welcome to the dark side of security—where "normal" means 50-page docs and zero fun.
Ah… Enterprise Sec-Ops. Also known as the… “Anti-Productivity” and “Enterprise Bloatware” department, around these parts.
You are scaring me. I just got a job in a startup company
Still at my first job at a startup, after half a year I was pretty much 2nd in command of SWE. And suddenly I had learned the entirety of fullstack .NET development we used. Now I’m cosplaying as both a UX expert and data scientist working only 16 hours a week
So much fun newly standing up cloud in a risk averse heavily regulated company that chronically underinvested in everything IT for decades.
Every new hire from start up land has an aneurysm when explained the development setup and limitations.
People from large banks that have invested in this for years and have mature tooling pulling their hair out that it just doesn't happen instantly out of a SNOW ticket.
Meanwhile us Stockholm syndrome veterans just shrug and keep working not knowing a better way