> We were downstream of the business model; our job was simply to wait and prepare for its eventual success.
Hard thing to learn and to stomach. The you are essentially a few nodes downstream from the decision makers who commissioned the software in the first place. They have some long-term view even if you can identify in the short-term that things won't be working out well long-term. Hard to reconcile that with a steady paycheck.
You can then get yourself into product decisions, to try to steer the direction a bit, working wirh sales, but that has all its own issues too (the article mentions "selling whatever we thought would entice the salespeople enticing the salespeople enticing the brands." at one workplace)
How does anyone find fulfillment when this is the long-term prospect at most companies for software?
Hard thing to learn and to stomach. The you are essentially a few nodes downstream from the decision makers who commissioned the software in the first place. They have some long-term view even if you can identify in the short-term that things won't be working out well long-term. Hard to reconcile that with a steady paycheck.
You can then get yourself into product decisions, to try to steer the direction a bit, working wirh sales, but that has all its own issues too (the article mentions "selling whatever we thought would entice the salespeople enticing the salespeople enticing the brands." at one workplace)
How does anyone find fulfillment when this is the long-term prospect at most companies for software?