Everything that prevents me from developing.

New JavaScript Frameworks 🌈

Neck pain 😖

Meetings, especially ones where I was not needed and it could have easily be a mail. 9 am meetings are the worst 😢

I'm struggling with choice between "Can you connect my printer?" and "Can you take a look on my laptop? It's really slow."

Giving estimates even if you don't know how long it will take.

The KPI

That’s too when there are so many options.

Becoming my whole families Tech Support. I dunno what's up with your malware infested 15-year-old laptop

When the PM says we have to deliver on an exact date instead of how long it's going to take to deliver, it can be one day or one year who knows

when a client that has the only experience using DOS in the 90s thinks he's the best and starts telling you what to do and how to do it

Learning without finding a job :(.

I really dislike distractions/requests, or anything that will make me leave the application I'm on to go to another app to do something unrelated.

Being told “It’s just a quick fix”, “will be easy” or “shouldn’t take you long” from a non-dev about a dev task

Overengineering a task when the solution was right in front of me in stack overflow

Spending two hours to figure out that you wrote "order_lisitng" instead of "order_listing" ... I hate variables.

Not being one.
Yet.

• Not having the time to work on cool/interesting projects.
• cowboy code/prototype code that is now in production and mission critical
• Business: "We need this automated!" - Me: "Ok sure, what is the process we want automated?" - Business: "We know it when we see it" -
• YAML ;)

Everyone overestimate me. I mean they expect me to get good score in programming class or do practically anything well. Even I actually do it well, I don't want other people to expect me to be good.

The interview process. 9 times out of 10 they'll test me on something I'll never do while working there.

Not enough free time (in the capacity of always working on a project to meet the deadline, like 10, 12 or even 16 hours a day). Also, having to learn a new language (in the vane of balancing the project, leaning the new language and free time for loved ones, friends, etc.).

Computers.

People asking me to fix their PC or WIndows or Printer problems, because "I work in IT"

Edit:

furthermore

• helping with Excel / Word
• fixing Routers or connectivity issues
• helping to buy new hardware ("is this a good one?")
• helping to find software x for purpose y

Naming variables.

code challenges in interviews

JavaScript frameworks

Yeah.. that's usually the case when they are non-technical in nature and they want a rough date in their planning to get things done.

Native libraries failing to build

The stereotypes are pretty annoying, just as annoying when people assume that things you do aren't that hard. For me there's two main things that I have problems with:

• My goal in life is to be an open-source game developer. My parents have very negative opinions of technology, especially the gaming industry, and they seem to have the notion that game developers are basically youtubers who play games for a living.
• I often do freelancing work to pay the bills, however I am very uncomfortable with being the one to nominate the price. I work with companies of different scales, and therefore different websites are worth different prices to different groups. Whenever I have to go into a meeting without the rest of my team I get very nervous when it comes to asking for money because some companies won't value the job as much as others do, and you want to have a good reputation with as many companies as possible.

capitalism

Difficulties communicating between domain knowledges. As a developer it can be hard to explain to a marketer why we need to do X in stead of Y, but then find out they were actually trying to do K.

Just as when I talk to our accounting department and barely understand half of what they say.

nailed it man

i sometimes lack time to play dota 2

Dev is not frustrated technically because he/she is a dev and loves/breathes technical things. Dev is a dev by choice; not by force.

Few instances from my experience(working in IT services).

1. Technology decision is made by 2 people playing golf and the dev has to support it.
2. Decisions are political rather than technical and dev has to support it and live with it.
3. A person (read PM) who has no idea on how the code works makes presentation on system he/she didn’t develop. On top of that he wants to sound like an authority. Dev has to prepare/support him/her in his/her presentation and watch it in pain (smiling externally).
4. Provide “rough”/“ballpark” estimate in 5 mins. Why ask for estimate if you already have a deadline?
5. Accommodate so called “small” change and still adhere to the deadlines
6. A non-IT person comes and tells you how to implement something. He/she may not understand the nuances of development but just want to make sure that his/her unwanted presence is felt!

Back pain

Other devs just using the this is my experience card without more background or conversation to overrule others

Impostor syndrome, never feel good enough for things

Waiting more than 3 days for a code review.

When HR is completely clueless.

I applied for a design/WordPress position last month. The test questions were something like 5 C#, 5 Java, 2 Python, 1 JS.

The job description was all DESIGN, SEO, Web dev, etc and then the test was mid-level CS stuff in languages the company does not use.

No PHP questions! 🤦‍♂️ (or even HTML, CSS, or WP!).

I don't expect HR to be able to debug my code, but that was ridiculous and it is not uncommon.

Following ugly interfaces / being forced to write ugly code.
Makes me want to quit my job tbh.

People ask to fix their PC, Printer 😞

Big walls between design and dev

Constant, unnecessary interruptions.

I left my job to start a company and we're going with the "no slack stack" because I don't want people to feel that sense of urgency around every request.

So far nothing.

Neck pain and rubbing eyes so I can read the screen, after staring at it 🙃 for 12 hours.

That I can't get a junior job for almost a year now

Fixing printer for family

The fact that 99% of the clients don't care about the nifty stuff you did with the backend... Only attractive and functional UIs

flash sale

Time. Because I cannot throw clients in a black hole and then we would have infinite time to develop.

Vague requirements.

The interview process. Every company has their own process and it's exhausting and I usually don't agree with it.

There is a lot of over-advertising and cheating on the web.

I'm Perl and Mojolicious developer.

Even if it is a minority, I want to develop without anxiety.

**When u do task slow/steady
**Manager: you r a bad developer.

**When u work hard and finish everything fast
**Manager: it is a simple task.

My ADHD causing my brain to lock up when I have a difficult problem to work through.

People asking questions that are rhetorical or I already answered.

This might be out of points but hate the way parents are pushing their kids from a very early age to coding, and some websites show after few days of the tutorial from their paid course you can code SpaceX rockets.

There are too many junior devs who don't know what they're doing who are given too much attention on social media and using it as a platform to spread bad ideas...

Most developers and managers in the industry are not experienced or skilled enough to recognize how bad these ideas are and so they all ignore the tiny handful of senior developers who are actively trying to point out why the new trend is a bad idea.

It takes over a decade for the majority of people in any given generation to finally understand that the technical trend didn't make sense to begin with. Then by this point some new crazy technical trend comes up at the same time as a new, even bigger generation of junior devs enters the industry and the insanity repeats... The industry stays perpetually irrational and code quality stays low forever.

The best parts of the industry to work in are software security and software consulting... Then at least you can monetize all the software design flaws which all these crazy trends keep creating.

Pro : working flexible hours
Cons : working flexible hours

Can you hack facebook account 😂

my brother always asks me.. "if you dont know how to hack instagram accounts then what you are doing is fake" hahaha then I have to explain myself more.

The other fact that I hate is that my mom always says to me "I will have to break your laptop soon. is this how you want us to live? you dont give me stories even" LOL

then my siblings 3 of them starts bullying me "the nerdy is here.. bragging that she knows IT but she is fake as she looks" hahahaha

3am in the closet. :(

For me, it has to be waiting for the backend, design, or management team for something I need, to be able to meet the deadline... I'm always the one that has to spend the 2-3 days before a deadline working like a psychopath so we meet the deadline... because these teams decide they do stuff 2 days before the deadline, then it's me who deals with not getting to the deadline...

I also hate priority changes in projects, let me explain. The management team decides this feature or bug is really important to fix NOW. So yeah, we start working on it, we are mostly finished and they decide that NOW it's not important anymore and this other thing has more priority. It would be okay if this happened a couple of times a month, but not on every project every week or so...

PD: I'm the lead front-end developer at our company, managing and working on around 6 projects, this happens on each one of them...

Does this happen to any of you? Or is there something wrong with our team?