Why aren't you there. Mine was a jr VB.net dev job that paid about $15hr. I decided that I was better off freelancing for rent and doing a startup than that.
A Boeing 757 leaves somewhere traveling at 500 miles per hour. A ball bearing falls out and the engine blows up. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field (A) multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B) then multiply the result by the average out of court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of the recall, we don't do one.
Note: it's not that the planes are unsafe. It's just scary that the Fight Club equation is so effective, especially when you have two points of failures.
Senior Software Engineer at a large co. that was still somewhat connected to its startup roots. Then it got acquired by a huge co. with a real stifling culture and it was time to leave.
On the plus side, I made good money during that period, and managed to save a bunch, so now I'm using that to bootstrap my own startup.
My last job was at a startup (they preferred the term 'early growth faze company') developing mobile security software. I was in charge of all of the development efforts and personally built the first generations of the Anti-Virus, Call Screener, and SMS Spam Filter for SymbianOS. I left because I was dissatisfied with the non-technical management above me.
Working down at the video game plant. Had done some years at different developers, then found one that was kind of small but ambitious and very talented. They got bought by the big publisher and eventually the wheels came off. Good pay, great royalties, but I like the broke-ass startup life better.
Position: Co-op Propulsion Engineer
A Boeing 757 leaves somewhere traveling at 500 miles per hour. A ball bearing falls out and the engine blows up. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field (A) multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B) then multiply the result by the average out of court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of the recall, we don't do one.