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2008-11-21

Unsatisfied software industry


It was an occasion in which few friends part of software industry got together to celebrate their 1 year of service. Everyone was excited to catch up with each other the 1 year experience. Comfortably seated in restaurant, the discussion started. A very studious girl from a MNC company asked in a peculiar group discussion style, “how was the past 1 year experience as a techie?” The tall, handsome and witty guy from a bulk service based company teased her “Here we go??” After a little laughter and joking, suddenly one absolute nerd said “I am dying. It was the most boring year of my life. I expected I will be doing some good work. But it turned out that our projects in college are far better than the one I do”. Quickly agreeing to the point a QA engineer added, “I am just testing the same product day after day. There is no improvement in the product/work”. A geek girl next to him opposed saying “I like the job. I get to implement codes that I see people using just before my eyes.” Another guy working in the same company as her mocked “I know what you do!!! I test the code you implement. It’s completely filled with bugs “. Then they all fell into an argument on Developer/QA. The studious girl brought order to the situation and asked another perfect question, “How many of you are satisfied with the job you do??” There was absolute silence. The witty guy asked the geek girl, “You sounded like you are very satisfied.” She answered, “Yeah!!! I like my work. But the pay and the work environment are bad. It’s just work we do. Daily going to office writing code and coming back is boring. And in addition there is a lot of favorism” Then the discussion drifted towards the work environment, lack of interactions in the team and team outings. This time it was the nerd, “What about the transport, food and other facilities??” There were comments from all over the table. One said that the food in their cafeteria is very oily and spicy. Another said it was too much to eat. There were a long list of complains. So finally the deserts had arrived and they made the final conclusion “No one is happy with the work we do or the work environment”.
These are not just few friends from some software industry discussing their experience. This is a common discussion in every coffee room in a software company. Everyone is unsatisfied. Being unsatisfied in a software company is become a fashion/tagline. Why is it so?? Doing repetitive work is around everywhere for instance, a teacher, a clerk, a driver. Favorism, work environment, bad work, lack of facilities is not just with software industry. Then why are we so unsatisfied?? May be software induces a lot of EXPECTATIONS or I am not in any of the other profession to know its circumstances.

3 comments:

Sureshkannan said...

its simple.. when u meet a share market guy who always talks about his loses..he might have made a lot in past but that comes only once in his whole discussion..its human inbuilt thing that they look for better by saying negative about something..another typical example is, our division products are too good..when we meet big customers they say some product out of our company is bad which is not related our division.when we ask specificaly about our product, they will say one word, "yeah this good but that one...."... everyone trying to get discounts by saying some bla bla...its one type...i see now, most people say 'atleast in some sense' our industry is okie compare to other, only once in months... no one ever wanted to show, they are satisfied..... no hike if u say u r satisfied with ur salary ;)

monica said...

Completely agree. But i dont think it is because of the hike. It is because we work in a single place inside 4 walls, nothing mobile, nothing colourful, people thinking only about themselves, no interaction with outside world, etc. Grass is always greener on the other side. It might be true as well

Pradeep Chaitanya said...

Hi,
Wanted to express an opinion of mine. Kept writing and it looked more like a blog than a cooment. So moved it to my blogs. thot of sharing as you are the one who started the idea.

http://deepujayanti.blogspot.com/2008/12/reasons-for-dispair-in-it.html

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