[hinkley]

This is HN though. This is the same level of conversation at a trade show or over drinks. If you can’t lay out your dispassion bluntly (even if just for effect) here then where can you?

I would not encourage anyone to talk to their boss the way GP is talking. But these are peers talking, and if you don’t think convos like this happen, then you haven’t seen them or you’ve dismissed them. If you haven’t seen them, I can only assume nobody trusts you enough to vent.

[allo37]

I like to think most software engineers have at least some interest in what they're investing most of their waking hours in. Sounds miserable otherwise!

[pseudalopex]

I like to think most software engineers don't work 56 hour weeks. Someone can take interest in their craft without taking interest in a product. And many people are happy enough working to live instead of living to work.