Ben Halpern

for The DEV Team

Posted on May 16, 2022

What’s the most annoying part of your job?

#discuss #career

This is the third post of the Mayfield + DEV Discussion series. Please feel free to go back and answer previous questions as well.

Top comments (33)

Marco Antonio Dominguez • May 17 '22

Unreal expectations, as a developer a common issue is to listen to people expecting you to finish something in record time, regardless of the lack of resources, lack of time, lack of clarity on requirements, and non-sense policies.

Keff • May 17 '22

Could not agree more, it's exactly what I was going to add!!!

Tu Trinh • May 18 '22

100% on your side

Manuel Artero Anguita 🟨 • May 17 '22 • Edited

I'd say... the never-ending feeling. You take one task, you do it. Then you take another. Do it. Another. Again.

Don't get me wrong I do like my job, I'm extremely grateful to my profession; but I think that dealing with the never-ending cycle is the hardest part.

Guilherme Thomas • May 17 '22

I guess that's true for a lot of professions. Before development, I was doing tech support for POS machines. Never ended, same errors everyday, visiting the same cities. Can be exhausting

Aryan Kaushik • May 16 '22

Back to back MS teams beep beep beep beep beep

Asim Dahal • May 17 '22

lol I can relate

Melbite blogging Platform • May 17 '22

Fixing a bug in production yet I did not face it during development.

Ishaan Sheikh • May 17 '22 • Edited

Unnecessary calls and timesheets.

Daniel Alonzo • May 16 '22

speak in english :(

Michael Tharrington • May 17 '22

Haha, I think spam fighting takes the cake here.

Props to @carolineschettler, @itscasey, and all the awesome trusted users who put in the work daily to help us scrape the spam off of DEV. Not to mention @ben and our engineers who have created automated spam fighting features for us as well. 🙌

Bonus props to community members who report spam as they see it! Thank you! ❤️

Sherry Day • May 16 '22

Any time I know how I could solve a problem, but cannot go about solving it because of circumstance.

Circumstances such as not being on the team that is supposed to solve the problem. I know sometimes I am missing context about what is making the problem so tough to solve, but sometimes I know it's just annoyingly circumstantial that I can't just fix the thing I have technical access to and knowledge of the system it would take.