Every few months or so we get these really circle jerky posts by engineers who believe the world of business is them just pumping out code and somehow getting paid.
1) that’s the difference between a job and a hobby. You do the hard parts you’re paid to do sometimes.
2) decisions you don’t like by stakeholders you don’t like aren’t always wrong just because you see some way to “code it”. A product is not just its code base. It’s is also the design, marketing, revenue and growth strategies. Sometimes even more than the code base. Sometimes code can solve these issues but more often it can’t.
3) this view often attracts comments from engineers who seem to have very limited experience in building and running successful products that can pay the bills. It requires a lot of hard work you don’t love. Yes you can find others to do that work but that’s you. You’re the one hired to do the work higher ups don’t.
If you disagree you can start your own business and learn for yourself. A business is a lot more that solving interesting problems and calling it a day. It’s building, growing and managing a business and the tasks that go along with it.
1) that’s the difference between a job and a hobby. You do the hard parts you’re paid to do sometimes.
2) decisions you don’t like by stakeholders you don’t like aren’t always wrong just because you see some way to “code it”. A product is not just its code base. It’s is also the design, marketing, revenue and growth strategies. Sometimes even more than the code base. Sometimes code can solve these issues but more often it can’t.
3) this view often attracts comments from engineers who seem to have very limited experience in building and running successful products that can pay the bills. It requires a lot of hard work you don’t love. Yes you can find others to do that work but that’s you. You’re the one hired to do the work higher ups don’t.
If you disagree you can start your own business and learn for yourself. A business is a lot more that solving interesting problems and calling it a day. It’s building, growing and managing a business and the tasks that go along with it.