rootshell said I miss when I was a junior sometimes. Just hammer out some code and go home at 5pm...
Main company: 3 juniors and me
3 daughter companies (acquired in the past 2 years)
CEO: "I want to make the best brandportal in the Netherlands."
Our main webshop: held together with ducttape and prayers, no brand management tools
Daughter companies got their own webshops.
There is no technical leader in the company.
We're migrating to another ERP somewhere this year and these airheads can't decide whether to keep existing products or not, let alone anything substential.
They want to outsource the connection between the shop and the ERP, despite that being the current situation and going horrible, but because in the new ERP some things cant be done we are introducing yet another management pane. Yay!
No sensible roadmap, got shot down when I asked being interim techlead/software/solution architect until we find someone...
My current manager literally dropped all her responsibilities onto a PM who doesnt know what the fuck to do either.
I'm sitting here pulling through because it'd look bad on my cv to quit another company so soon again despite the company having no future nor growth opportunities for me.
I seeth everyday, yet know if I drop out they'll have to crawl back to the external software dev company we inherited the shitshow from. Because you just need a few devs to have a dev team right?!
CEO actively boast about us saying they told her that it can't be done while our product crumbles bit by bit from architectural problems. It wasnt even designed as an webshop let alone a brand management tool..
One of these days I'll just go into consulting, it'll be just as soul crushing but atleast I get to keep a slightly larger slice of the pie and be able to say no to shit customers sometimes.```