• MangoCats@feddit.it
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    10 hours ago

    So, first, it sounds like leaving that job was an upgrade…

    I interviewed with a similar company, they had a 3 month average turnover in their software development department. They declined to hire me because “you’re over-qualified, you’ll just get a better offer and then leave us.” True enough, but that might take years, is very unlikely to happen in the next 3 months and by that point I’m beating your average… I think what they were really afraid of was that I might corrupt their culture and actually teach their developers how to fix problems instead of patching them and quitting. Getting their software patched to fix problems also seemed to be perversely ingrained in their sales / support culture - I don’t think sales there wanted software that “just works.”

    Over the years, I have done my best to avoid database and network… both seem to be an invitation into a hell of others’ makings. I prefer my own hells to others’.