Most jobs I have had are designed to apply pressure make sure you do the hours. Usually too much: I get behind on the 1 job and with the 40 and get pulled into rooms. I wonder where the laid back jobs are? Or do you have to mystify what you do. For example be the only k8s guy and then say “deploy a new cluster? give me a
week!”, and a
couple more days to
scale it up to 6 nodes!
> For example be the only k8s guy and then say “deploy a new cluster? give me a week!”, and a couple more days to scale it up to 6 nodes!
It's this. It only works at big companies. You carve out a niche where you don't have to work with anyone too entrenched in the enterprise muck, then you match the average rate of work and discover it takes basically no effort if you keep your code clean.
There are armies of developers out there that would legitimately take a week to "deploy a simple cluster" (I know basically nothing about k8s but can extrapolate to different things in other tech stacks). There are plenty that would legitimately take a month.
Big companies hire scores of cookie cutter junior consultants that have zero experience with the tech they're using, then erect incomprehensible mountains of accidental complexity that basically permastun the entire organisation.
On your typical 2000 developer team, the company is usually being held up by 50 or so devs that have managed to blast a path through the bullshit and deliver something useful. The other 1950 or so developers are doing absolutely fuck all. Most projects get cancelled. Most of the people I've worked with in enterprise I wouldn't even be able to tell you if they were trying their best or playing video games all day. It's all just cacophonous noise that you can occasionally pull a working feature from if you're lucky.
I find people that haven't worked in a few of these environments vastly underestimate the lack of productivity that drives a big organisation. It's the entire thing that makes startups possible. If it wasn't like this, we'd all have no shot against competitors with that much manpower and money.
> Most jobs I have had are designed to apply pressure make sure you do the hours.
There are jobs out there where the management does not really know how to fully utilize workers, so you get lot of free time. This mostly happens in large enterprise companies with too many people.
