---
title: "Many software companies are a joke"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/many-software-companies-are-a-joke-8zvbckeos
source_url: https://liou28335.medium.com/many-software-companies-are-a-joke-9f4b10378c7a
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2022-05-16T14:14:01.289Z
updated: 2022-05-16T14:14:01.290Z
tags: ["general-programming"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 49
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# Many software companies are a joke

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 49 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Many software engineers are paid to do very little work. A lot of my time was spent attending useless meetings, preparing boring slides, making goofy excel sheets and Gantt-charts. Even my major solo side project was more complex than our software at work. Do not be surprised when a project you were given 1 year to work on can be replicated by a freelance developer outside the corporate atmosphere in 2 months.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 5 upvotes

> Super solid take by Leo and he writes down his experience:
>
> > The money was good but I would trade money for fulfilment, an interesting and intellectually stimulating job, a soul and the ability to not be in the same room as my enemies.

**@kkurko** · 3 upvotes

> Totally agree - I've been dreaming about a job at big-tech company, but after some stories of the people who worked at such companies I understood this is not a place where I want to work and startups are great place for me where you can work and constantly grow with your passionate colleagues at hand

**@kievandres** · 0 upvotes

> Nice article!

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