I have been working as a software engineer for about 6 years now. I started out working for a tiny startup with terrible management, but was coding for hours and hours a day and loved it.
After that job, I joined a startup that has been doing exceptionally well and is poised for IPO in the next year. But I feel miserable. I code for very few hours each day and sometimes not at all for a combination of reasons, but, in my experience largely because (a) there is a ton of stress because there is a good chance that what I write will be rejected, but I feel like I'm not receiving mentorship in terms of how to make it right (b) architect-level engineers and product can't really make up their minds about things and things get stuck in the design phase for a really, really long time, trying to achieve many design concerns.
I really don't know what to do. I'm concerned that in joining another company, I might find more problems. I really just want to code, work with a team that has clear direction and gets good things done. I don't know how to find that though.
Does anyone have any advice? Throwaway for obvious reasons.
