College: We will give you six to twelve weeks to build a decent, fully-equipped application that involves a backend with domain business logic, DAL, service layer, security, etc.

In the real world: we give you an afternoon. If it takes two days, you are slow.

Gotta love it.

six to twelve weeks is the same as twelve weeks

@Lensflare I guess you aim for 6 weeks but then end up at 12 weeks.
😎 And that's how you teach kids time estimation in real life

your company sucks, not real life.

Most products flop. Fuck security. Your DAL can be a folder full of functions that build queries.

Sounds about right.

And don’t forget about management changing the tech stack in the middle. And changing the requirements twice during and twice after development, then blaming everything on you. If you accept the blame it kills your performance review, and if you don’t accept the blame you’re not a team player.

Don’t be naïve enough to believe they don’t know what they’re doing. Shank a bitch. They deserve it.

in the real real world: 6 months into the project, PMs must negotiate more time and money after the customer amended their requirements once again.