Whether joining a certain company or team within a company with the express purpose of fixing that one bug which annoyed you in your everyday use of a product, or if you really wanted for a product to add a certain feature.
You finally joined that team. How did it go? Were you able to do what you wanted?
If not, did you finally understand why it's not a priority and do you agree with it?
I joined Cloudflare Workers because I was astonished by how powerful the platform was relative to how it was marketed/what the DX was like.<p>Not a specific bug to fix per se, but I've helped improve the DX of wrangler and related products quite a bit.
Wow. That is impressive level if targeted job hunting if you see a bug and then manage to get a job on that team! Unless you are a QA at heart and see bugs everywhere and then join any famous company.
They cancelled that feature, the guy who owned it left the company, and I was given a poor evaluation for not coming up with a new UX research project idea without a supervisor or team. The supervisor who replaced the one on my offer letter was angry I couldn't work as a full on software engineer, despite being hired on as a UX researcher.<p>I ended up switching careers after that summer, but it was a huge economic burden and contributed to me eventually becoming homeless, since I wasn't able to get a high paying internship or job due to that being the third summer I'd spent in the bay -- it was kind of an "up or out moment".<p>(I tried doing policy, but that was proven to be a huge mistake when Brexit happened followed shortly by the election of Trump)<p>As it currently stands, I'm waiting to see if someone is going to flake on the dishwasher gig they offered me on fourteen dollars an hour, because I have given up on technical companies doing anything but treating interviews as free consulting sessions, and I'm not going to try for a clearance when I specifically warned the CIA that they might see a change in administration followed by a government shutdown causing it to be impossible to fulfull the SFS reqs and musing (pre Snowden) that we were on the path for a USSR style collapse complete with a riot on the capital lawn within the next decade.<p>TL;DR: I was going to work on the UI for Firefox Persona, then they canned the project.