IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Khane said:

Oh your technology driven company/platform is also full of mid and upper level management that has never written a line of code in their lives and has no understanding of technology?

Mine too.

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Funny anecdote. Our company is big on AI. Literally I hear about it the entire day, everyday. If you know where I work then you know.

About a year or so ago they gave us all GitHub copilot and did surveys. The leadership team was shocked and dismayed to learn that most software developers are writing code at most 1-2 hours a day and the rest of the time debugging, testing, attending meetings, writing documentation,.etc. It changes of course based on role, for instance in firmware we spend a lot less time writing code than say a frontend dev.

Our director at the time told us leadership was really upset to learn this. They literally thought we wrote code 8 hours straight everyday.

Also separately on the DEI hiring. I was on the interview team for new hires several years ago. They told us the moonshot goal was 75% of hires to be DEI hires (forget exactly how they worded it). I could tell they were weeding people out based on that because I interviewed a ton of minorities. I didn't give the single one the green flag to move forward. Again anecdotal but the only person I recommended was this white nerd that seemed super passionate. Pretty sure we hired the DEI people though.

And I generally dont care what you are. I believe in hiring the most qualified person. The people I interviewed didn't know SHIT. I didn't even give them coding questions. They couldn't talk about anything meaningful. One of them did they me she was the chair of the feminism group at college though.

I have a pile of 500 data conversation scripts (SQL). Anyone recommend a tool to easily reverse these? E.g. select ABC insert XYZ, turn that into select XYZ insert ABC.

It's just a lot of busy work that should be possible to automate, but if there's something COTS that can do it easier that's ideal.

TJT said:

I wish that was the case rather than arguing about requirements for 6 hours a day.

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The meetings shall continue until morale improves!

TJT said:

I wish that was the case rather than arguing about requirements for 6 hours a day.

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I prefer meetings now. Coding is a young man's game.

Unfortunately I have to do both like I assume you are too.

TJT said:

If it's truly that simple you can put them all in a folder that VSCode can access then just do a quick replace all a few times across the entire file structure.

If they are views and other data objects you need to actually build once you do this, there are a number of automation options to redeploy all of them that take little effort to setup. Flyway is one.

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Yea it's not exactly that simple, there's translation tables and case statements and other things. It's conceivably not hard to automate a bunch of them just uno reverso the tables and fields, but yea didn't know if there was any ez tool to do this I didn't know about.

TJT said:

I like coding way more than talking to people.

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To be honest I'm burnt out on coding. I do a lot of architecture and planning work and I find that more impactful. To each their own of course.

Noodleface said:

To be honest I'm burnt out on coding. I do a lot of architecture and planning work and I find that more impactful. To each their own of course.

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My problem is context switching constantly. I can code or be constantly interrupted, not both.

Palum said:

My problem is context switching constantly. I can code or be constantly interrupted, not both.

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Exactly my problem in my current role.

My feature is something I inherited, but it's super proprietary and exactly two of us own the UEFI side of it. I try to shield the junior guy from all the meetings and questions but it's nonstop because it's across 3+ generations with 2 POCs in the works. It's just not sustainable. We're sinking now. I've asked for more resources and keep getting 'yeah that's a good idea, I'll see what I can do.'

Palum said:

My problem is context switching constantly. I can code or be constantly interrupted, not both.

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What you need are some programmer socks. Then people won't bother you.

Noodleface said:

My feature is something I inherited, but it's super proprietary and exactly two of us own the UEFI side of it. I try to shield the junior guy from all the meetings and questions but it's nonstop because it's across 3+ generations with 2 POCs in the works. It's just not sustainable. We're sinking now. I've asked for more resources and keep getting 'yeah that's a good idea, I'll see what I can do.'

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If you want to teach me whatever you do, and don't mind me being 100% WFH since I would never move to MA in a million years, I'm game.