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SqueakyNarwhal
SqueakyNarwhal
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Done with BIG 4 consulting FOREVER//

So last week, I got coffee from Starbucks early morning and was sipping it while travelling to the client office.

As soon as I got to the reception, I was asked to go into a conference room where the CEO and the tech lead was there with the entire tech team. CEO straight up says, "We have a problem, a BIG one". Someone from our team had introduced a bug into the codebase for an internal API that had no fallbacks, their main service was down because of us. They had pushed a hot-fix which reverted to an older version based on a heuristic but it lacked a lot of the ML intelligence we had built for them.

My PPT suddenly seemed worthless. I was almost on the verge of breakdown because I was pulling very long hours. Bhai! I didn't meet my girlfriend on one of the dates and she was super mad at me.

I coordinated with our developers, reviewed code personally after 6 years of no coding, and called colleagues at Deloitte for support. We re-deployed project on K8s and? It worked obv. CEO shakes my hand and I head back home.

Leaving the office, I felt that what am I even doing with my life. I feel that I should get back to coding now. So, I have decided to devote weekends to brush up my tech skills. Girlfriend is supportive toh dekhte hain kya hota hai.

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WigglyBurrito
WigglyBurrito
Career Break14mo

I lost you at: "I got coffee from Starbucks early morning and was sipping it while travelling to the client office.

As soon as I got to the reception, I was asked to go into a conference room where the CEO and the tech lead"

Maybe I'm too poor being a Senior Consultant and maybe I'm not qualified to have meetings at client but yeah I support your decision to get back to coding.

TwirlyQuokka
TwirlyQuokka
Deloitte14mo

Never leave coding bhai . Yahi aapko roti kapda makaan sab dega . Bhale hi kitna bhi manager ban jao . Never leave your technical grounds .

FuzzyBiscuit
FuzzyBiscuit
Deloitte14mo

X for doubt

WigglyMarshmallow
WigglyMarshmallow
Deloitte14mo

X

SleepyBurrito
SleepyBurrito
Groww14mo

You got to meet CEO. Engineer will never meet the ceo unless you're a management tech lead. So what's the point as a mgmt tech lead when you'll never do any coding.

If you say engineers are paid well/better, then it's a different issue

SleepyNugget
SleepyNugget
Infosys14mo

100% agree. Never leave coding. 23 years experience, I still get down with the developers

FluffyKoala
FluffyKoala
Deloitte14mo

Ive been through similar situation, l have worked in product based comapny in securoty engineerig role where I did a lot of implementations integrations automations and some scripting, i enjoyed it and ehen I came here it was all dumb excel word ppt gadha-majdoori work. One day I woke up and decided to brushup again all my tech skills and start applying outside. In three months time I was able to get an kffer from a product based company for an engineering role. Its been 4 weeks serving notice, waiting for another ~8 weeks to pass by to get out of this excel word shit.

SwirlySushi
SwirlySushi
EY14mo

6 years of no coding? I am eight years into my career and I am still coding. So how many years did you code?

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