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Virtually all my coder friends who are employees complain about lack of recognition. You're hired to make money for other people, not to complete one project then be treated as the special anointed one thereafter. I was completely shocked when I realised this too. My advice is that you should gain enough business experience and go your own way. You will get all the recognition you want and no managers will pester you and tell you what to do. You have the power to change things, don't expect others improve your career or recognise your achievements, you will be sorely disappointed most of the time. Good job on your project! All the best.
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The reward for good work is always more work.
Also, you cannot get rich while working to make someone else rich.
As for not getting recognition... I don't know why, but programmers are never recognized for their efforts, no matter how considerable or impressive. I suppose most positions aren't unless you're a celebrity. People just suck. 😧
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
So, 9months ago my scrum master came to me and asked me to spearhead a "little" API... 2months work, no worries... I started the analysis and quickly discovered that that estimation was grossly understimated...
I convinced them that it was not 3 months but 4. I alerted to the design mistakes that were made, I pushed changes and made sure the entire project worked, was stable and the best it could be... 4 months passed, target proposition donne... Several change requests since then and we have been implementing braindead CR after CR for 5 months... Most CRs came from design issued I raised but we're ignored at the time just to come back and bite them on the ass...
Horrible design, bad documentation, amateur requirements analysis... However, delivered successfully with great acceptance...
What was my reward? They rearranged my team, removing virtually every good performer.
Never did I receive a "good work" or a "thank you"... I don't want one, I am just doing my job... However can you please not fuck me in the ass!? I now have 2 projects to spearhead at the same time and virtually no team... I can only handle so much!!!
Some good news? Ok, just announced I'm the project owner of a new project, that we will take advantage and make a 2 in one.... Great! Some more work for my lap! Thank you for the workload raise!... Ok, timewise? One month! And I still don't if that includes implementation....
TL DR; did my job, got fucked with more work...
Sorry for the vent, just wandering if I should try and not do my job...
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overworked