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Go work in an industry. Any industry that isn't IT, I suggest manufacturing and raw resource industries like farming and mining. After a year and you get your head around what's going on automate some of their business process or collaborate some some of their data into a form that's easier to interpret.

Sell back to your employer or their competitor. Congrats you've just started your career in coding and you didn't do a single whiteboard riddle I interview. Also your doing real work for real people and making actual differences in day to day lives. Not just some faang companies pleb work, bleeding metrics from the masses.



You’ve also built a mental model of how large systems interface that takes years to acquire from the other direction.


this is actually our company/startup for the ChemE type companies.

it is just hard to find software/data science people interested in manufacturing/engineering


Yep, get in through the backdoor.


this is good advice.


Much better advice than “get used to ‘em” as alternatives to the status quo do in fact exist.




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