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by sloaken
1643 days ago
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I would start looking now. But I would also address the issue of your criteria for a job. The part that concerns me is: 'none of the companies I really wanted to work for were interested in me'. What did those companies have that made you want to work for them? You need to define what work culture you need, what opportunities you want (i.e. is a job with no growth sufficient), how much money you want or need. I typically put a monetary aspect to each, so I can make a quantitative decisions, and not convinced by a slick HR person. Definitely, start looking. But start a=by quantifying your need, you might find your current company can fulfill it with a minor adjustment. |
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More than sufficient, it would be ideal. I have no desire to become a tech lead or architect or manager - I love being a software engineer and that's what I want to spend my time doing, not sitting in meetings all day.
I certainly don't expect to spend 100% of my time writing code, I've been doing this long enough I fully understand and am okay with the various other aspects of being a developer, especially a senior one - I'm just not interested in getting any "promotion" that results in me spending even less, or no, time coding. A big part of the problem is I spent a decade working on shipped product (i.e. not a service) and now work on a service and (like many service-focused jobs) in addition to being developers our team is also responsible for the ops/infra running the service and for me personally I don't find much interest in working with that area.