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With Nothing to Do
It was eight years ago that I lived through some of the worst weeks of my life as a professional software engineer. I was working for a small startup that was about to be acquired. Or about to go bankrupt. There was no other possible outcome anymore. Acquired or bankrupt, it was one of these two and every week for several months the odds would tip from one to other and back again.
They didn’t care about new features or performance optimizations — we had already gone through a due-diligence process, they had looked at the codebase, poked the servers, interviewed us engineers (good story for another time). I also worked through Real World Ocaml, set up a nice, pristine VM running Linux on my MacBook, made my dotfiles cross-platform compatible, switched colorschemes. I learned that I like working for companies where the technology counts, where success and failure are also influenced by engineering and not just by a marketing budget.
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