Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.

• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just be prepared to integrate with 40 year old equipment and add new features in to a PLC that should have been decommissioned a decade ago and the program is a mangled Frankenstein piece of shit made by 50 different people, many with no real understanding of programming or how to structure things…oh, and various “temporary” hacks upon hacks to keep production running with minimal downtime.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those things happen, but if they’re the norm for you, seek different employment.

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