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Everything you described is just standard engineering practice. I've always found it funny how software developers call themselves "engineers" while working nothing like them.


Everything you described is just standard engineering practice. I've always found it funny how software developers call themselves "engineers" while working nothing like them.

So true. But when you have a culture and an industry where 2 years ia a long tenure at a company and a long lifecycle for the latest faddish "framework" or whatever, it's impossible. I'd love to stay somewhere 10+ years and work on a single significant application the whole time. But it seems to be impossible to find such a gig. Experience is generally undervalued throughout our entire industry.


You can do that at any time. Start a project and work on it forever. I'm still working on a compiler I started in 1982.


"I'd love to stay somewhere 10+ years and work on a single significant application the whole time. "

Try CAD. The industry is full of crusty applications pushing 30 years. I'm sure some of the careers are equally long.


It would be standard practice in a waterfall development methodology which big corporations still use to this day.




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