• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Somewhere there is a designer and or an engineer that was forced to make that stupid thing and they hated every minute of it.

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      1 year ago

      Nah, Microsoft devs are there for the money, not the passion, just like all the other big tech companies. They got paid, so they don’t care.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, I’m a dev at a big company, and I would definitely feel gross about implementing this.

        I’d still do it, cause I gotta pay my bills somehow, but I definitely wouldn’t enjoy it.

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          Fair enough. I worked at Facebook, Google, then LinkedIn, so I guess all the passion got drained from me until I quit and started working on my own product.

          (LinkedIn was actually pretty good. I was working on an internal tool though.)

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            Honestly, fair point to you as well. I’ve been lucky enough to work at a company that does at least try to care about things. I imagine if these soul-sucking tasks were an everyday thing, I’d probably tone down the ol’ moral compass a bit just to get through.

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      That’s pretty likely, but there are plenty of crappy developers who are proud working on stuff that makes peoples’ lives shittier.