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> It's actually the opposite.

I disagree. The biggest part of why I'm successful in my role of helping startups transition into something larger is because I love the shit out of working with technical debt. I love the shit out of making code work the way it was intended when the business told IT they wanted it.

I'm not alone in this. I'm not sure I know any software engineer who hasn't moved into management or architecture or some other pseudo-work tech job who doesn't love to work with code.

> That's what the sales pitch

It used to be. It probably still is for a lot of those "no-code" like RPA solutions which end up being much more hassle than just hiring a few programmers who can actually understand the business processes. Microsoft's tool-chain has gotten really good though. If you buy into it anyway. I'm not sure why you'd pay for things like CRM or ERP systems if you're paying for the 365 side of things anyway. Especially the dynamics and sharepoint online have become tools that are "good enough" for most businesses.

Basically corporations work like this on the tech side...

* <10 employees = 0 IT

* 10-25 employees = 1-2 IT operations.

* 25-75 = 2-3 IT operations, 1 digitally inclined "I KNOW EVERYTHING IN THIS BUSINESS" person and 1-2 rockstar programmers who will build a lot of stuff that's both brilliant at solving the business pains fast but will also suck so much later on.

* 75-300 = 5-10 IT operations people, only one of which are the originals, because "OH SHIT OH SHIT WE NEED TO STOP STORING DATA IN PRINTED OUT EXCEL SHEETS". 5-10 digitalisation.

It's in that 150-500 employee zone companies either break or get their shit together. Part of that is digitalization because companies can't keep hiring 5 new employees for every new project. Another part is that the bureaucracy increases immensely once your company starts becoming big enough for legislation and professional investors to care. This is where the rockstar code starts biting you in the ass, it was the right thing to do at the time because you needed to move fast, but now you need it to live up to all sorts of legal requirements, be scalable and maintainable. It's also where the "fun" of having 0 documented business processes and departments having 9 different CRM systems because... well... because.

In the past two decades I would've agreed with you that there weren't any standard systems to handle things. To some degree there still isn't... but it's getting close. My current goal is to reach around 90% standard software to operate a solar energy company, with 10% custom software in between to make things work. As far as the software that the business interacts with that is... Those 10% won't actually be 10% of the total software portfolio, there will be a massive amount of automated services behind it all to make the data flow.

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text > It's actually the opposite. I disagree. The biggest part of why I'm successful in my role of helping startups transition into something larger is because I love the shit out of working with technical debt. I love the shit out of making code work the way it was intended when the business told IT they wanted it. I'm not alone in this. I'm not sure I know any software engineer who hasn't moved into management or architecture or some other pseudo-work tech job who doesn't love to work with code.…
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