It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, <i>others</i> and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons.<p>Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk.<p>Seeing the company you work for doing commercials like <a href="http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-samsungs-reworks-gangnam-style-to-promote-the-galaxy-s4-at-a-launch-event-in-india/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-...</a> (even if it was by a third party PR company) is kinda.. weak.
This comes across to me as more of a rant, than a constructive exit description from a company. When hiring new candidates, and doing background checks alarm bells would go off if I saw people whining about their previous jobs in a blog post. Be professional, accept that some jobs are shit, and find a new one. This post will do you no favours in the future.
What have you been expecting as Junior Developer? Especially in large company, there are lots of smarter people there, you are just starting. Sometimes people need to be a little more humble, than thinking that on start they will be doing new android features right away. I've worked for similar big cos as junior, did not like it also and runned away. But someone has to do the dishes...
I interned at a big telcom and worked at a bank. Amount of crappy software that needs to be used is mindboggling. Amount of money that is spent to license that crapware is even more mind boggling.<p>There is a real market for these beautiful b2c software products that can make their services store data on the bigco's servers (as opposed to their own - security is a concern) and write decent, mostly .NET interface to communicate with the company dabatabases.
The only reason I'll never work for a "big" company again: Clearcase<p>If the job involves this tool, I won't even apply.<p>(Yes, there are some other bad tools as well)
<i>(for example you have to use IE to work because much of their sofware works only as ActiveX controls)</i><p>This is a problem endemic to South Korea. They actually passed legislation in the late 90s mandating the use of ActiveX for security. Now that ActiveX is an orphaned technology, that isn't working out so well for them. They are trapped on an old version of IE.
I cannot comment on the inner working of Samsung or a similar corporation of that size. But having grown up on a farm I can very much sympathize with the joy and, can we call it freedom, farming has to offer.<p>I often wonder if we, who code and spend quite a bit of our lifetime in front of computer displays have distanced ourselves from the nature around us a bit too much from time to time.
Warsaw software developers' job market has gotten really interesting since Google opened an engineering center here some umpteen months ago. There is just no reason to stick to crappy jobs at this time.<p>Edit: OTOH, this is no reason to go with a bang - releasing some pressure is just not worth it.
As I know, (from my own sources inside) Samsung Poland is - as for Corporation - nice place to work. There are many, many worse employers here in Poland. Most big players treat polish workforce as second grade (better than those in 3rd world, worse than in "better world").
It`s funny to hear not that someone who spend 9 months in Korean origin corporation don`t know that in Korea ActiveX is some kind of "standard" for webapps (long and painful story, someone with grater knowledge in this topic should write some word about it - is interesting how they tied themselves in closed and problematic ecosystem)
I have a question as a user to devs: Do you consider fixing code a bad job, as he did? The Net is filled with complaints about things that require fixing in lots of software that's been around a while. Yet it never seems to get done. Is this more because dev hate to fix old code by someone else -- what in the book world would be termed an editor's function -- or is this the nature of the corporate beast, to just keep moving forward?
I'm not very surprised by being forced using IE and all kinds of active X plugins at samsung.<p>Consider the fact that south korea sold their soul to Microsoft and IE years ago by making it mandatory that all online purcases etc. require ActiveX plugins for IE.<p>Poor technology choices forced upon the population by governments are inherently bad.
i hope OP comes up with a farming related app and enjoys the best of two worlds. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/04/29/f-farming-apps-mobile-technology.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/04/29/f-farming...</a>