Been here 5 days and I hate it already, I understand this vacancy now.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    i started in a similar fashion (but through IT instead of electrical engineering) and i’ve also left the world of professional software engineering a couple of months ago, but not because of the bad code bases.

    it feels like bad/spaghetti code with bad practices are more common than not and i’ve always wondered if the relatively intense level of gatekeeping in the software engineering field is a manifestation of a false mass belief that an engineering degree will automatically result in better code.

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      17 hours ago

      i’ve also left the world of professional software engineering a couple of months ago

      What are you doing now? 🙂

      I have no intention of leaving my web dev consultant career, I’m loving it, regardless of poor practices (it’s not so bad in the places I’ve been). But I’m curious what kind of careers people find after software development.