What is the darkest part of a software engineer’s career?

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Biggest thing for me was/is overcoming imposter syndrome. The fear of failing, being shunned by your teammates or worse, being undervalued and cast aside as an "underperformer" and getting a PIP... it can make for a very dark time until you emerge as your true self and realize you're more than what other people perceive and it's up to you to show your own brilliance.

19g616kyj4misw · Accepted Answer

1. Working in an environment where empathy, care and consideration are never regarded as important as someone's ability to analyze, architect and mansplain all day every day.
2. Having to actively engage with overly-assertive personalities, loud voices and strong opinions because that's the only way people in this industry (non-gender exclusive) believe will make their voices heard.
3. Always some dose of toxic masculinity, i.e. narcissism, controlling, power-hungry, attention-grabbing, emotionally unintelligent
4. Enduring the lack of accountability from other engineers who are too tenured or entitled enough to care about how their work will impact others. So they do a half ass job and always replay 3 hours late to slack messages.

19g617l1kyan4m · Answer

Every company big or small have two things:

1 - At least one asshole working in engineering (if yours don't. it might be you)
2 - A dark secret. Something unethical and barely legal

qw9NcUi31 · Answer

1. Company can replace you with the younger generation which makes getting older a scary thing if you're an IC.

2. You can loose your job anytime. You never know how things change in the future as we're seeing with the state of the world in the last 4-5 years.

3. You sit for hours before a computer and you suffer knee, back pain in your early age which sucks. But hopefully you get up and move.

4. Living to max your comp in hopes that life will be better later, only to find that later isn't promised. Gotta come to terms with that at some point and drowning yourself in code to escape it wont solve anything.

19g615l1zb3jl1 · Answer

Or alternatively, do your best, and if you get a pip, jump jobs for a pay raise (unless you work for faang or trading company in a high position).Regardless what type of job you have, you must maintain CANI (Constant and Never Ending improvement) to stay relevant and competitive in the tech industry

te3801jn · Answer

No matter what role you have in a organization, there is always someone you're going to have to answer to and someone will always have a say in what you do and when. CEO, board member, new hire, doesnt matter. In this game, you are a resource that keeps the company alive. That's who you ultimately answer to.

What is the darkest part of a software engineer’s career?

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