Comment on Day in the Life: Senior Dev Edition
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 1 year ago
Surprisingly little time on calls.
I had 5 scheduled and 4 unscheduled meetings today. At the same time, I’m constantly messaged by a project lead, because “DEV is not working and we need to ship next week”. Turns out the “ultraprincipal supersenior dev” of our team (again) pushed completely untested and obviously broken commits and of course merged without any comment to any of us (again) and then decided to go on an extended vacation.
Sometimes I feel like “senior” means simply orchestrating idiots so the few smart people in my team can get anything done.
Oh, and we had a security incident in our network and our IT department decided to randomly deactivate accounts and revoke some certificates. Because that’s what you need in times of crises: denied access.
sip@programming.dev 1 year ago
some places are like this. Where I work now seems to be like this. Tech lead starts working on something, breaking things, then he has 100 meetings and either gets distracted or has another emergency and leaves things broken. He doesn’t write tests, pushes images built locally without CI/CD pipelines and lately he keeps messing pubsub subscriptions. Data from other services stops coming through and people ask us why isn’t our service working. ugh
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 1 year ago
As a lead (though in a small project), I can’t even describe how frustrating this is. I’m very aware, that I don’t get things done on time. I’m trying to delegate tasks, but it also feels weird to delegate tasks that seem like pretty much my core role.
I’m extremely lucky, that I have a very good and pretty senior dev on my side who’s smart enough to see if things get delayed and simply does them himself.
Nonetheless, it feels like I’m barely doing any dev work. Yesterday I spent 4h on various phone calls and meetings, another 2h on writing the results down or writing mails and the rest of the time was this “15 min between meetings” crap where you can’t get anything done except a meeting with the toilet.