What you hate the most about being a Developer? 😅🤓

Well though being a developer is awesome, but there is always something. So what is that one thing that you don't like being a developer? and why so?

Comments

[Max Ong Zong Bao]

Giving estimates even if you don't know how long it will take.

[Swarup Kumar Mahapatra]

Giving estimates when Manager has already set a deadline!

[Andy Edmonds]

Giving estimates while still in the meeting with the stakeholders and before being able to think on the requirements.

[Sarthak Sharma]

Plot twist

[Max Ong Zong Bao]

I got to agree with that and negotiating on the deliverables is not fun.

[Erik Lundevall Zara]

Of course you do not know it, that is why it is called an estimate :-)

The main problem is with people who treat an estimate as a promise and/or do not care about context and do not follow-up on information changes.

[ferceg]

In these cases one of my colleagues is more than happy to give "500 +/- 490 hours"-like estimates :)

[Uriel Bitton]

nailed it man

[terabyte.]

I wish I agreed less...

[Sarthak Sharma]

😅✨

[Franco]

Exactly.

[Shubham Battoo]

Meetings, especially ones where I was not needed and it could have easily be a mail. 9 am meetings are the worst 😢

[Sarthak Sharma]

😅 Standup culture 🤷🏻‍♂️

[tswiftma]

Agile works but I hate the "Cult of Agile". Like if you don't have a standup every day the world will end :)

[Sarthak Sharma]

I wish a PM join this thread.

[Glenn]

Feature request for PM to actually organize standups only for people that need to be there. Maybe 2 a week where everyone needs to be there so we can get updates.

[Junxiao Shi]

I schedule meetings at 3am or 7am.

[Glenn]

The interview process. 9 times out of 10 they'll test me on something I'll never do while working there.

[Daniel Kaiser]

Front-end Dev:
"Please make Sudoku solver algorithm that checks the weather and mines bitcoin. We have a gun to your head. you have 25 minutes. We are only looking for ROCKSTARS only. After this we have scheduled for 4 more meetings with 8 more devs who each have concocted SUPER ALGO questions you will not be doing in your day to day."

[Eugen]

Hey, candidate, look k at this script. Is there any mistake?
...No.
Are you shure?
...I guess mistake is here, it could be rewritten like this...
Are you shure?
Yes? And refactor this place...
Are you shure it's all?
...Shit, I'm get out of here!

[Whaison]

Is that an amarican thing? I had some interviews in Germany and they first wanted to know me on a personal basis and asked how experienced I would consider myself. When they think that I'm a good fit for the job they invited me to a one day (or half a day) work trial and gave me typical development tasks for the job.
I think that this works very well because you don't have to study for the interview and the employer can see how well you fit in the team, what your thought processes are and how clean your code is

[Glenn]

American mostly. I also had the same experience when I interviewed with a company in Indonesia.

[Andrew Baisden]

Agreed the interview process is convoluted and broken.

[Jan Küster]

People asking me to fix their PC or WIndows or Printer problems, because "I work in IT"

Edit:

furthermore

• helping with Excel / Word
• fixing Routers or connectivity issues
• helping to buy new hardware ("is this a good one?")
• helping to find software x for purpose y

[Temani Afif]

and the : " is the Samsung Xzd45" better than HTC sdfr48? or should I keep my actual phone?" ... and you have no idea what the hell he's talking about ...

[Jim Kleiber]

This! I was studying electrical engineering at college when I did a study abroad in Costa Rica. My host mom had a radio that was broken and asked me to fix it, "You're an electrical engineer, right? (in Spanish)." When I got back to the US, I quit electrical engineering lol.

[Eric Sundquist]

Yes! It's like going to a restaurant and asking them to make you a grocery list

[Darren Fuller]

So much this. Especially as it normally leads to me being asked to fix other stuff like heating systems because “they’re like computers right”

[Sarthak Sharma]

New JavaScript Frameworks 🌈

[Daniel Kaiser]

I hear Locker is coming out and its WAAAY better than SVELTE. Industry game changer. Drop what you are doing and learn now!

[Rishabh Tyagi]

Neck pain 😖

[DramaticBean🇵🇹]

Can be stress or bad posture

[Shaiju T]

This should be taught as Software Developer Beginner skills, to avoid burn out.

[Sarthak Sharma]

Absolutely

[Ronaldo Peres]

In my case, is a herniated disc, so need to be aware of my posture all the time.

[Sarthak Sharma]

Absolutely

[Sarthak Sharma]

Nah not needed

[Lorna Watson]

Being told “It’s just a quick fix”, “will be easy” or “shouldn’t take you long” from a non-dev about a dev task

[Sarthak Sharma]

😆😆

[Ryan Brown]

• Not having the time to work on cool/interesting projects.
• cowboy code/prototype code that is now in production and mission critical
• Business: "We need this automated!" - Me: "Ok sure, what is the process we want automated?" - Business: "We know it when we see it" -
• YAML ;)

[Sarthak Sharma]

😂😂

[Lorenzo]

Everything that prevents me from developing.

[Sarthak Sharma]

😂😂😂

[Ishwar Kaushik]

Dev is not frustrated technically because he/she is a dev and loves/breathes technical things. Dev is a dev by choice; not by force.

Few instances from my experience(working in IT services).

1. Technology decision is made by 2 people playing golf and the dev has to support it.
2. Decisions are political rather than technical and dev has to support it and live with it.
3. A person (read PM) who has no idea on how the code works makes presentation on system he/she didn’t develop. On top of that he wants to sound like an authority. Dev has to prepare/support him/her in his/her presentation and watch it in pain (smiling externally).
4. Provide “rough”/“ballpark” estimate in 5 mins. Why ask for estimate if you already have a deadline?
5. Accommodate so called “small” change and still adhere to the deadlines
6. A non-IT person comes and tells you how to implement something. He/she may not understand the nuances of development but just want to make sure that his/her unwanted presence is felt!