I've been a software developer for about four years, at three different companies, and I've found it surprisingly difficult to find a job where I spend most of my time actually going through tickets, building features and fixing bugs. My day-to-day tends to get bogged down in meetings, navigating tech debt, researching stuff we're not ready for yet but planning on doing sometime in the future, and talking about business goals and career moves. I just want to spend most of my time (I repeat, MOST, no job is perfect) writing chunks of Node/React code, testing them, and watching them work. Was I naive in hoping for this idealized version of software development? Can anyone recommend an organization that lives up to this ideal?
I think you've described the life at most software companies. You're not programming anymore, you're building solutions to meet business needs<p>I think the only two places where I've actually spent most of my time writing code was in grad school (surprisingly) and when I was an intern at a web design agency where I was delegated a new client to churn out a new WordPress theme every 2-4 weeks