Comment by Rajkumar on "Questions for Indian Hashnoders 🇮🇳🤓"

CommentQuestions for Indian Hashnoders 🇮🇳🤓

Rajkumar

Fullstack Developer.

Aug 11, 2017

Day starts anywhere between 9-10 AM and ends between 6.30-9 PM! It all depends on the work load, meetings and UAT etc! I spend 1/3rd of my time at meetings, 1/3rd to help team members and assign task. The other 1/3rd is MY time. I code, I fix critical issues, analyze for any potential threats, loopholes, memory leak and fix them. I try to improve performance and that is my jam. If I don't get 1/3rd for some reason, I'll be mad at the end of the day!
Passion. Yes, I studied at i-dont-want-to-name-it engineering college, but passion is what made me what I am today. I don't call myself a god, but I am a good coder. I love clean code, I worry about my code quality and I always am open to learn. I self-learn everyday, There is nothing better than self-learning for your success.
Tech scene around where I live is, well, zero. It is a Tier-II city. Even colleges have better tech scene but that's about it. No company is willing to organize one, there is not tech group to plan those activities. Technologies used by the companies here are either decade old, or pretty boring. I still see a lot of old school frameworks being used by mid-size companies. Developers here lack interest. No one is really willing to update themselves or to learn new technology. I feel this is the reason for the lackluster tech culture here. Only a handful of developers knows hot trends and the other handful knows how to work with them, which is only around 15%. Rest of the crowd is okay with decade old framework and have that laid-back attitude. One more thing I noticed here is, people tend to stay for such a long time in company. Say anywhere between 5-15 years! That sounds right because of the lackluster tech scene. This is where I miss Bangalore/Chennai(These cities are lot better than where I live now)
Read point #2. Without passion, getting into this field is, pretty boring. If you don't know what you want to do, you may end up maintaining legacy systems, be in support or worst, do nothing for long and get kicked out. I personally believe passion leads you to self-learning and self-learning will lead you to success.

Tommy Hodgins

CSS & Element Queries

Aug 11, 2017

Nice! I know what it feels like to be in tech in a small town - I grew up in a town of ~50 thousand, and went to college in a town of ~150 thousand, but a few years ago I moved to Toronto with ~3 million people so I'm experiencing a 'tech scene' now for the first time.

Even still, I can relate to the 'decade old' toolset, most of my clients are building sites the same way for ten years, so the only thing newer are the JS plugins we add to the frontend, but 5-15 years in a company sounds like jobs are very stable and the work is constant so that's positive :D (I think here the average job lasts 2-3 years)

but 5-15 years in a company sounds like jobs are very stable and the work is constant so that's positive :D (I think here the average job lasts 2-3 years)

That's one way to look at. But other other way is, with anywhere between 2-10% hike every year, you stay at a firm for 15 years, with no technology update means "Suicide". What if one fine day they kick you out? What special skill you have other than that decade-old technology that only 1% of the whole world uses? I fear for my future if I were to not learn anything new for every 6 months. This is my food in my field.

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