Comment by the_jends
21 days ago
Being just a grunt engineer in a product firm I can't imagine being able to spend multiple years on one project. If it's something you're passionate about, that sounds like a dream!
21 days ago
Being just a grunt engineer in a product firm I can't imagine being able to spend multiple years on one project. If it's something you're passionate about, that sounds like a dream!
This work originally wasn't my 100% project, it was my 20% project (or as I prefer to call it, 120% project).
I had to move teams twice before a third team was able to say: this work is valuable to us, please come work for us and focus just on that.
I had to organize multiple internal teams, then build an external community of contributors to collaborate on this shared common goal.
Having carte blanche to contribute to open source projects made this feasible at all; I can see that being a non-starter at many employers, sadly. Having low friction to change teams also helped a lot.