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Thank you. Not super techie and just needed the meme explained.
And btw… sounds like damn good work if you can get it.
Until it's really unfulfilling.
This. I hate it. It feels like a modern day factory worker job.
When I first graduated I was all caring about design, mainability, etc.
Nope. All that shit is pointless in a large company. Took me too long to notice that Cisco was essentially just throwing as many code monkeys at the problems until things work.
"Fix" a bug in a hacky way that creates 10 more bugs that won't be found for weeks and be another teams problem because they can't directly point to your hacky code anyway? That engineer is getting promoted. They fix so many bugs. So many commits!
Take the time to understand the bug and do a rewrite to ensure other platforms are not effected and setup the design so it's easier to debug in the future? Well, you spent all week on one bug you lazy engineer!
It took me too long to realize that I was the bad programmer. That this is actually what companies want and reward their employees for.
Sorry. Didn't mean to rant. But your short comment triggered it I guess.
I fucking hate this field. I still love programming though.
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