@moodynoob
"If you want to move forward and no one else wants to move at all, you're never going to be happy." Those words haunted me from the moment I heard them, and it's like a slap in the face about the reality of my workplace.
@No1x3N
In short: In most companies, like in any other industry, they don't pay you to give your opinion, they pay you to shut up and do as they told you.
@randyproctor3923
This is so important. I have had such a similar situation with managers and teammates that simply "do" without thinking. It drove me crazy. It is easy to feel like you are going crazy (you are being gaslit) until you talk to a person who is actually a good dev/teammate/person. Then you suddenly feel sane again. I collect these people in my life and I hold onto them above all else.
@CakeprogressS
He's such a good front end his hair has light and dark mode
@PraneyBehl
Its so good to hear this from someone, I have been in this situation more than many times and many companies I have worked for. It just kills the curious and smart engineer inside of you. Until to decide to not work for anyone else and go all in to build something you really care about. Cheers, made my afternoon. thanks!
@Z4KIUS
there are two things to get from this: if you are the smartest person in a room you are in the wrong room (that is unless you are taking on the mentoring role) managers don't care about making the product better, they care about shipping features that will make them look good
@soverain
Long time subscriber. That one hit me hard. One of your best videos. The hard part is always the human side of things.
@stupidrepo_ongithub
Theo - thank you for this. Probably one of the most inspiring things I have heard you say since I started watching your content a few months ago. I hope this inspires many more people to work in a way that makes them happy. ❤
@GoodVolition
Yeah that's about right. In my experience if you calmly disagree with something it has a way of becoming an "outburst" in all written reports when your team members and/or management don't like you.
@WyvernDrexx1
I usually don't listen to content creators opinions and voices mostly because I'm skeptical of manipulation in this digital age. But, your videos are very very informative and feels personal. Like talking with a friend who doesn't care what he talks about or hurts someone. Which is good. Thanks for doing what you are doing and keep progressing and help us progress better.
@InactiveBen
the hair being diff each video is throwing me off 😭
@JamesTenniswood
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
@kylevasulka
This was a great video, thank you. I have experimented with “quiet quitting” when hitting these barriers. For me my happiness goes way down when I do. So for now I just always try my best and deal with backlash. It hurts, but not as much as pretending to do nothing like all my coworkers
@jakosss
I work for outsourcing company. I had multiple instances when I cared more about the customer's product than their own engineers and sometimes even their product team. It's really hard to find people that care for something more than their own ass
@ScottMaday
In my experience, the hardest part about being a good engineer is knowing there's a better way to do something but you need to have buy-in from other teams or management. Want to rewrite the web app in React? The security team doesn't want to deal with another library that needs upgrading. Want to store things in the cloud? Compliance is scared the data isn't on their servers directly. Want to use a package manager? ITO doesn't want to deal with creating the necessary firewall rules to deal with that.
@ZapOKill
lol, I just quit my job, and your video pops up in my feed, for the exact reasoning behind my decission, only minutes after that
@kyaki101
This is one of the best videos I've seen from you and from all software engineers. I'm a computer scientist who's about a year away from graduation, and I can tell you with full certainty, even in my career that isn't software engineering, some professors will prefer a better documentation than a better product. These software engineers that don't want to grow as developers come from experiences like these, they are taught that writing a fancy pdf is more important than actually writing functional and useful code, and feel threatened when someone actually does so because they never took the time to learn how to do it themselves. Again, one of the best videos i've seen
@moumous87
How much content did he prepare last year that he’s inly publishing now?!?!
@taahirahghoor3941
Thank you for sharing your experience, its uncanny in how similar it is to what I've experienced as well. It took me awhile to figure out that I'm never going to be the person that toes the line. If something isn't right, I'm going to speak up, and I need to be in a space that appreciates that. I also needed to be around people who are supportive of each other rather than competing with or feeling threatened by me. I don't think I've landed where I want to yet - as I'm not in the 'addicted' space yet. This video is a great reminder to keep looking 🙏
@wafflecopta