[mrkeen]

I always wonder where the devs come from who end up doing important work.

Seniority doesn't mean anything if a dev's 20 years has been spent flinging crap over the wall and then wondering how to keep up with all the support tickets being filed.

How does one get onto the "software is suppose to work" career track.

[Cthulhu_]

> How does one get onto the "software is suppose to work" career track.

Boring companies that have had IT for a long time; industries like government, taxes, energy, administration, CRM, insurance, pensions, banking, etc. You won't get recruiters knocking on your doorstep to come and work for those though, and you'll possibly be working with 10+ year old tech and development practices.

[WJW]

10+ year old development means practices like scrum and agile? Or do you mean 10+ year old tech like Golang and Rust? /s of course but I think you need to calibrate your level of "old" :)

[meiraleal]

React included

[throw_away_x2]

Yes, I think a lot of people underestimate the age of some of the popular frameworks/"libraries". React has been "Enterprise approved" for a long time, and is a safe choice for managers.

[Animats]

Go into database internals, or flight control, or hard real time operating systems. Those are areas where it has to work.

[potatoman22]

In my experience: all over. It's the company that teaches them not to screw up the important work.

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