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@macpatel better to be in this position than to be a mindless bot.
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I am currently at this small company. Job discription "Android developer". I have networking background (good at it) just want to switch to mobile development.
First 3 months "Redesigning their infra - all the servers (cables) to firewall policies/implementing LDA,etc.
Another 6 months - android development.
Another 2 months - fixing iOS code(I have no fucking clue - but manage to copy paste from stackoverflow and somehow survived)
Another 5 months - PHP projects.
Now the company is going bankrupt and gonna close down at end of this year. :X -
@macpatel welcome to devRant!
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@tirrorex jack of all trades, master of none. 😔
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@itch96 true that. Now I am a master of none and feeling like shit. So currently focusing on Laravel and trying to build something.
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@psone laravel is awesome!
Need a new desk...
This is an old friend of mine, who recently joined the company I work with, 6 months back. And this is what he...
To the previous devs who decided to write dozens of 2000+ line js files, so tightly coupled that if you make t...
Dear Indian Companies,
Why do you hire for a role and then say: "We dont have that role but then we want you to grow up to be a Generalist"!
6 years as a build, release and SCM guy at Moto and Nokia back then, I shifted to this big Indian IT corp coz Nokia was shutting down...
A week into my orientation (which is a crazy weirdness inducing ritual in and of itself), the new manager I'm supposed to be working with comes up and says- "Here's the code repo, there are 2 open jQuery issues, fix them!"
I'm not really sure what to say at this point because jQuery is nice and all but thats not who I am.. I'm the infra / DevOps guy. And this is circa 2012 when DevOps as a term was just hotting up...
Tell me to setup a multi-stage pipeline and automated test cycles, I'll do it drunk, but oh no! bug fixing on a jQuery script? Noooo!!!!! I just dont have the chops for it.
So long story short, I get reported to HR for insubordination - Yeah, Go Figure!
Cue: HR meeting
HR: You wont work?
Me: I cant work on jQuery. I am a sysadmin / devops guy... Give me a project that involves those skills and I'll work.
HR: But we hired you to work on jQuery.
Me: But you did not mention jQuery / UI / UX in the job description - Pulls up email and shows JD for interview which says Symbian, Build, Release, Configuration Management but NOT jQuery.
HR: ....
Me: :-/
HR: But we want you to be a generalist.
Me: #wtf
HR: We want an engineer to be able to do anything he is tasked with!
Me: Can I know my last working date here?
And thats how my career at a glorious IT corporation just went poof!
When I think back on it, I feel good that I chose to do what I wanted to get better at and what I loved working on...
And this is the problem with IT companies in our country - They play with people's aspirations and passions... To the point that all thats left of a software engineer is the looking forward to pay day so he can start the damn cycle all over again.
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