| ▲ | nixosbestos 4 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> who's crying themselves sick over RTO to engage with in any reasonable semblance Wow, please let me go ahead and double down on thinking your stance is some middle managers hand-wavey (almost surely unjustified) smug attitude towards IC devs. > think WFH can work for some people, but when it's significant amounts in large headcount companies, it starts to fall apart. And I think you're a blowhard with your head up your quester and I'm going to justify it the same way you justified your conclusion: (space left intentionally blank). No seriously, have you even ever worked at a big and or small companies? (I've worked at, well, the biggest, and the damn near the smallest possible, and your conclusion is 1000% just you handwaving and asserting an assumption) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | BoorishBears 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Immigrant who started programming in middle school, self-taught without a degree and started at a <20 person company by emailing my code samples to their support email address. Made it to FAANG within a decade of that, and worked at companies the entire range of between those two sizes across the 14? 15? years since I first got paid to code? I left my most recent role specifically because I was getting increasing amounts of pressure to play manager vs focus on mixed TL+IC priorities (and I had already communicated I was joining on primarily as an IC vs a TL to start). tl;dr: another swing and a miss - It's funny that this is the 2nd comment to imply I'm not an IC because I'm bluntly stating not all ICs can handle WFH. It's like some people can't fathom you'd be invested in how well your team or larger organization executes unless you're a manager. Maybe I can't relate because I wouldn't have learned anything or gotten anywhere with that mentality coming from the start I had. And frankly if others around me at the start of my career had that mentality, it would have been lethal to my own opportunity: so I certainly won't ever adopt it. - People act like working hard at things only gets your boss a bigger boat... and for most of the population it's true. But we're knowledge workers in one of the highest paid industries with the closest thing to a meritocracy as society/capitalism will allow: you're plain doing it wrong if you can't convert hard work into any sort of personal enrichment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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