Has anyone worked as a software developer at a consulting company as a full time employee, not just a contractor? If so, could you offer how the experience was?

I've read a lot of developers shit on consulting positions, but it seems no different then developing a product for clients.

My coding style is influenced by the tight hours that get assigned to every task at work in order to make the projects profitable enough for what is expected by my bosses bosses boss. So just imagine back in college when you waited until the night before to start an assignment.

Team meetings where you go around in a circle and tell everyone what you're working on are useless. Change my mind

Javascript's splice(). The definition of splice doesnt even relate to what the function does

It's always fucking something with my companies buggy internal development tools. Small tasks that turn into figuring out a vague error

I love it when sleazy business analysts change previous notes on a work item so it looks like they stated something they never actually had, especially when it's something that "I'll update the design after your development".

RePAaiRINg dISk iSSuEs, tHis MiGht tAkE oVeR aN hOuR

Demoing our product at the customer's site by remoting into one of our internal environments. Their internet is slow so product looks slow.

Project manager after the demo: hey, next time, think of yourself as the tech lead, not just the software lead. Next time hop into the command prompt and do whatever you guys do, check the bandwidth or something.

Me biting my tongue: so I can tell you the customer's internet is too slow?

My companies logic: let's create our own internal development software for backend code and database operations that limits what you can do for crud operations and debugging. Its revolutionary. And never make it better in the past decade

Sums up my job

I FUCKING HATE ASP.NET WEBFORMS

For people who work fulltime for a software company as a developer, how are your hours tracked? As in, are you assigned specific hours per task? Are you just given deadlines for a task to be done by? How small are tasks broken up into, etc?

My CS degree was useful in getting me 70,000 dollars in debt. ( Software developer from US) but most softwarr jobs require a degree in the US today unless you have plenty of experience it seens

Question for devs who work with databases. Do you constantly get tasks that involve joining data not on keys? Data from Exel files, other servers, etc where you have to try to match things on dates, amounts and other normal data.

For those of you in a software career, did you get drug tested for you position? Was it before of after the first day you started working?

Does your company put hours on every small task you do? Down to the hour? And these hours are made up by someone else on an estimate.

turned down software engineering job offers after college because I thought it be a good to take a temporary position as a controls engineer so I could pay off student loans faster.

realizing how big of mistake it was. working long hours on uninteresting tasks. I just want to code for a living.