It was a really interesting place to work at a Software Engineer. It made me understand the business. It made me understand that doing the right thing isn't valued. You do the thing that has the shortest ROI.
It also made me realize that it is horrible to build software with people who expect short term deliveries like the usual McKinsey engagement. People who expect that the automation of an Excel file takes the same time as getting a BA to do it.
I am now in a full time engineering position. I don't talk to clients anymore.
What I miss the most is coming into contact with people with a huge variety of backgrounds.
Which surprisingly were the people with who I had to spent the most amount of time explaining how software works.
Maybe I'm bad at it? Who knows. But I learned a lot, and I'm happy where I'm at now, so any bitterness would be misplaced.
Not to mention they paid for my GC.
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