Comment by aroc

10. Technology is incredibly interesting. But I base my number off the fact that I'm always pretty involved in product/growth/strategy at companies where I do software engineering and I'm 90% of the time working on an interesting side project. I swap back and forth between working for a company (always a 10-50 person startup) and working on my own company. I think to truly get the most out of engineering positions, you want to be really involved in the crafting of the overall solution to the problem, rather than being told precisely what it is and then immediately starting on the engineering work that needs to meet a handed over "spec".