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by dacracot
3087 days ago
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I've 34 years of experience in software engineering. Since about 1986, I have been either hired as the team lead or eventually been appointed the team lead at each of the six employers that I have worked for. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am once again starting over as a team member in a new group. I wasn't given much choice in the matter as my attempt to apply to an open position that I thought had potential, was squashed by my management. At least, knowing my desire, they offered up two choices of becoming a team member of a couple of projects with funding, openings, and years of internal customer base. However, it was a choice for me between the least of evils. Something that I could not convey to my management since I was already apparently "in the dog house" for having applied to the position of my choosing earlier. So now I have the psychological dilemma of trying to act like I am joining the team by my own choosing because I do not think any existing team member has any idea of the way I was collared. Whats more, the technology stack and engineering practices of my new team are poorly thought out if not completely random (and this is the better of the two choices). There was no mention of me being added as some sort of white knight to fix it. As far as I can tell, management has no idea of the cruft that is this system. So my spouse urges me to have patience, that I will eventually take over, as I have done in the past. But I struggle to keep my head up day to day, being assigned feature and bug tickets and instructed on kluged up solutions that match the overall product. Meanwhile, I fantasize how I could rearchitect and rewrite this system into a much better product. It isn't healthy. It isn't fun. I hate it. |
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