I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I wonder if everyone's automatic replies are going to be the Really Big well-known tech companies.
I've worked for "big" companies but always as part of a small (+-100 people) subsidiary rather than directly. Usually we're the only part that has anything to do with software development and we got bought as part of some kind of package deal. So I don't have any experience.
I do have friends who work for Big Tech. Most of them talk about how great it is for their careers, how much money they make, etc., and most of them are really unhappy people, for one reason or another.
I've often thought that when people say they worked for, say, Facebook, well so do a gazillion other people. And you can't all be doing good, interesting work. I'll bet (again, no experience...) that I'd get shoehorned into doing something mind-bendingly boring that was either destined to never see the light of day or was going to be incorporated into something unethical.
I'm going to say that I think the best companies to work for are small places with big ideas, who want to add something to the world, where you get to work on a single project with a group of similar-minded people.
That's not what I do, of course; I work in an advertising agency making websites and back-office products for multiple random clients. To be honest, that's not as bad as its reputation suggests - agency life is fine unless you work for a terrible agency (this time I have experience...!) and the rumours about working you to the bone are generally just talk. What's good about it is that you get to work on lots of different projects, you get busy times and slow times and it's not all one homogeneous blob of a career.
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I wonder if everyone's automatic replies are going to be the Really Big well-known tech companies.
I've worked for "big" companies but always as part of a small (+-100 people) subsidiary rather than directly. Usually we're the only part that has anything to do with software development and we got bought as part of some kind of package deal. So I don't have any experience.
I do have friends who work for Big Tech. Most of them talk about how great it is for their careers, how much money they make, etc., and most of them are really unhappy people, for one reason or another.
I've often thought that when people say they worked for, say, Facebook, well so do a gazillion other people. And you can't all be doing good, interesting work. I'll bet (again, no experience...) that I'd get shoehorned into doing something mind-bendingly boring that was either destined to never see the light of day or was going to be incorporated into something unethical.
I'm going to say that I think the best companies to work for are small places with big ideas, who want to add something to the world, where you get to work on a single project with a group of similar-minded people.
That's not what I do, of course; I work in an advertising agency making websites and back-office products for multiple random clients. To be honest, that's not as bad as its reputation suggests - agency life is fine unless you work for a terrible agency (this time I have experience...!) and the rumours about working you to the bone are generally just talk. What's good about it is that you get to work on lots of different projects, you get busy times and slow times and it's not all one homogeneous blob of a career.