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Questions regarding the Workplace interactions and considerations that are involved in the process of designing, implementing, testing, deploying, etc., a software product. Please refrain from posting coding questions, as those belong to Stack Overflow instead.
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Assigned to a buggy, failing project days before it is due
You should be focused on a lifeboat for yourself
Someone promoted you to lead a project with just 5 days remaining which is an absolute disaster? With only 5 days, it seems that they should have chos …
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Why is it so acceptable for software engineers to job hop? I'm tired of constantly recruitin...
Tl;DR: Raising complaints is expensive. Leaving is cheap. The hunt to leave can be fun. There are lots of places for engineers to go. Companies do a lot of things to make people want to leave without …
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How to deal with half my colleagues overriding development processes under the slightest pre...
You basically need the organization to value it as a whole.
I was with you a few months ago. I am now one of those developers you are frustrated with.
The reality is that people have certain timelines …
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Our top dev doesn't want new challenges
they all have rotating people to cover emergencies and other things. John's team, on the other hand, does not, because only he knows how to solve most issues that could arise.
So his experience w …
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Why are developers averse to maintaining software? They quit at the end of a project or leav...
I would be very reluctant to do a job which was mostly maintenance. Here is why:
It is bad for one’s career (internally). Heroic efforts to keep software working are almost never recognized as peop …
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Restricted from installing my own python libraries
Ask for sandboxing of the development team if possible
I assume that you are in a highly regulated environment of some sort as I have never encountered this level of bureaucracy and I worked in both …
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Dealing with a co-worker who is a shameless careerist? He is deliberately bad at things that...
Most companies have a lot of "work" which actually doesn't achieve anything.
Most meetings come to mind. I spent an hour and a half today in a big round table update meeting, where everyone else tal …
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Why are shorter hours such a problem for companies?
Benefits/overhead are not lower. The salary cost may be the same, but someone who works 40 hours a week and someone who works 32 hours a week will have the same dental expenses, same tech costs, etc. …
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How can I filter out software engineering jobs where I'll be asked to write algorithms in th...
Just decline them if presented
Whether companies use this or not would be difficult to consistently determine from the application. At my current organization, no algorithmic questions were asked of m …
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What is the point of the HR questions during programmer interview?
I suspect you failed on personality
If the irritation you show in this post even slightly came off during your interview, you got tagged as having a problem personality. If you get this annoyed at a …
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Software developer work day productivity: Is there an ideal code editor usage percentage?
They aren’t correct, but this is fairly easy to game
I don’t think you will find anyone on here who agrees with how they are measuring productivity. However, if management were consistently intellige …
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As a software development hiring manager, do you subtract points from candidates who talk ab...
I always thought they were considered a pro as employees train themselves.
I am not a software manager but my understanding, at least where I have worked, is that side projects are viewed as a benefit …
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When a company tells you to only spend an hour on a programming interview project, what leve...
I have had to do this a few times, with that same requirement of under an hour. (and I have always made it to the next round with these).
Firstly, in under an hour, it is more of a check that you ca …
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How to convince project lead we need a UX designer?
Consider that it may be intentional.
My Dad used to work for one of the large corporate tech integrators (think IBM/Accenture/CGI) and when it came to government, the idea was to build as much as poss …
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Is it reasonable to ask a software engineer to do CI manually for a company?
Reasonable in general? It is neccesary. Something you want to take on? Questionable.
This is a combination of manual QA, DevOps, admin work, and trying to change a culture where devs commit with reck …
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