One star for the paycheck, one star for the high-speed office Wi-Fi I used to research my move to California.
If you enjoy the creative challenge of building a sandcastle while the tide is coming in—and the tide is actually your Executive leadership with a shovel—this is the place for you.
I spent nearly 30 months here as a contractor, and it was a masterclass in Dynamic Indecision. My weekly workflow was incredibly efficient: I would spend Monday through Thursday writing code, and Friday morning hitting Ctrl+Z because leadership had a "new vision" that was diametrically opposed to the vision they had during Tuesday’s stand-up.
The goalposts here don’t just move; they’ve been mounted on a Tesla and are currently speeding toward a different zip code. I eventually realized that intense pressure is just the sound the company makes while it’s spinning its wheels in the mud. Once I accepted that I was essentially a highly-paid digital eraser, the stress vanished.
I left this company with the same number of production-ready features I started with: zero. My legacy is a series of deleted branches and a lot of wasted electricity.
Since nobody knew what we were building, I had plenty of time to get handsy with AI tools. Thanks for funding my self-taught Master’s degree in Prompt Engineering!
I successfully used my 30 months of experience (read: paid study hall) to land a job on the West Coast.
If you actually want to build something that exists in the physical world, look elsewhere. My sincere hope is that the leadership can actually define the word "AI" before they accidentally spend another two years paying someone to delete their own work.
Pick a direction. Any direction. Even if it’s off a cliff, at least you'll be moving.