[_antix]

This article hit me hard. I work in a non Silicon Valley-like company. I became a developer because I thought I love coding. But I found out that, in fact, I love problem solving. Tightly defined Scrum tasks make me sad and I would love to have more autonomy.

[MauranKilom]

I strongly encourage you to go out and find such a job then! You certainly don't have to move to SV to find one, and we spend too much of our lives at work to forego the opportunity of having work we're passionate about.

[Osiris]

I'm the same way. I spend a good amount of my time being pulled into production issues or debugging a particularly difficult issue with the product. In both of those cases, the "code" changes often take only a few minutes, the problem solving can take hours.

I get a lot of satisfaction from that. Of course that means that as a team lead/manager, I have to have a lot of self discipline to allow my team members to do the same and not try to solve every problem.