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How do you all deal with the guilt of leaving a comany/ team? I have been working at Microsoft for 1 year now, and seriously considering moving. I find the code base to be very legacy and I mostly work on obscure bugs that I spend so much time on, mostly due to navigating this large code base and not having much docs to refer to. Hence I find the job slightly unsatisfying, and that I could learn more elsewhere. However, I love the wlb, the team and company culture. The guilt stops my applying.
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I just love solving puzzles and building things. It’s rewarding building something cool, having it work, and moving that ticket to complete. I only get annoyed when I have to fix things other people broke.
I love helping Jrs and getting their PRs in with solid code. Not so much fixing others, cause 50% of the time it is “what the he** were they thinking?” vs interesting
I love that my quirks are appreciated. I’m very black and white—it’s wrong or it’s right. I ‘fit’ here. I enjoy the bug hunt and seeing the team come together with a solution and/or fix. I also enjoy trying to find the root cause. I’m like a bug detective lol.
I love trying to identify places where folks have to make undifferentiated decisions and to create paved roads to help allow everyone to go faster and build things in more consistent fashions. In the most idealized way of thinking about what i love, it's when an hour invested by me can save MANY developers ten seconds here or 10 minutes there. Find a point of friction, or slowness, and create a solution/pattern that smooths out the rough edges
I’ve recently started my first FT job. I love that I get to tackle technical work. Thanks to a great support system, I am a lot less overwhelmed. My favorite part about work is when something *finally* clicks, I love showing my mentor that I’m making progress. I feel like I’m starting to fit in :)
I appreciate being given the creative freedom to approach and solve problems in my own way. Working with talented engineers who I can learn from and bounce ideas off of is also great.
Solving interesting problems, sometimes being really thrilled when solving something really difficult. And it’s gratifying to save the day for others when that happens.