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Discussion on: What do you hate most about being a developer?

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Jeffrey Fate

My current position requires that I "wear a lot of hats", which is a stereotype of all small companies or startups.

Personally, it is one of the worst situations I've been in because I can't focus. It takes a TON of mental energy to be the

product manager
product owner
designer
tech lead
developer
QA
ops team
customer

all at the same time.

I had to institute firefighting shifts (assign someone different to take all the incoming) each week to get any significant heads down time solving problems.