• PoPoP@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I’ve been programming since I was 10 and just a handful of years into my professional career in this field I can’t take it anymore. If you have a strong sense of justice this field is not for you. Feels like I kind of wasted my entire life tbh

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      5 days ago

      There are places to work that aren’t complete dogshit, but you do have to avoid FinTech, FAANG, and probably anything with a lot of VC funding. You will make less money, but at least you won’t be asked to do morally reprehensible shit on the regular.

      Some of my best experiences have actually been at non-tech companies with small IT teams for internal shit. Biggest team I’ve ever worked on was 30 devs and that’s probably about the largest team I’d want to work with.

      EDIT: This does assume you’re working in the States which is a dumb assumption for me to make. I’m not familiar with the culture outside of the states, but I imagine it’s better than here.