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Quitting sinking ship companies (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by underscores@lemmy.zip to c/webdev@programming.dev

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Have you quit any jobs where you knew it was all over ?

Where you were aware you were in a sinking ship ?

I recently just quit and one of my biggest fears prior to quitting is that coworkers (who I knew were looking for other jobs) were going to leave me in the dust trying to fix issues at a scale way beyond our collective pay and skill set.

In this scenario I would have 0 chance of making meaningful changes and handle basic tasks like site reliability or feature releases, just fixing issues with integrators could take 2 devs alone full time.

I'm curious what other people's experiences are when quitting similar jobs, I had another job way long sgo where the project was already almost dead by the time I joined. I made massive changes along with new collegeaues but the technical debt was insurmountable. I left because I found a much better job to the point my manager tried to counter offer me but just couldn't make it work (I wouldn't have stayed even if the offer is better)

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[–] python@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm handing in my resignation notice next week! Signed the contract for my new job today :D

I wouldn't call my main project quite a sinking ship yet, but it's certainly getting there. Managers are foaming at the mouth to have all developers use as much AI as possible, so the codebase is generating technical debt at a record pace. The project is fully dependent on AWS (the customers, large players in one of Germany's essential public sectors, are getting more hesitant about that fact by the day) but there's no plan or even consideration to maybe look towards alternative cloud providers. And security issues and CVEs are piling up left right and center because npm libraries are just pulled in with no care in the world. Can't even keep up with opening enough tickets for all of them. I'm really surprised that the company had no major security incident yet, but it feels like we are due for one any day.

Honestly, it was fun while it lasted. I'm mainly just leaving because I haven't really gotten to build any new features in months now because I'm the only one who really cares enough to go in and fix CVEs. I feel like I'm just the janitor at this point 🤷