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by Scalanchilis 3385 days ago
I'm actually in a somewhat similar situation. In my case, the position is remote, so I haven't moved anywhere, but I was lied to about how agile the company is. They do waterfall, but they call some of the phases of the traditional Software Development Lifecycle "sprints."

We're in the analysis and design phase now, and I've been producing documentation for about a week now. As lead engineer, I'm actually being expected to take wireframes a user experience expert has made, transform them into verbal requirements according to a rigid format in Confluence, and then JIRA tasks are created. I am expected to go into these JIRA tasks and link them to the Confluence document with the requirements.

This is now the second project, and on the first project, I felt I did very little of what traditionally constitutes software engineering and instead a grab-bag of tasks vaguely related to the creation and maintenance of software.

Confirmed that this is simply how they do business, I am on the job market again.