Most of my big corporate world experience comprises CRUD apps like these tasks:
* query a database
* run a web server, typically spring boot or a C# equivalent
* run some ridiculously large browser framework like Angular or React
Typically the end goal was just put text on screen and you need an entire army of developers to do it. Any suggestions that deviate from common patterns were met with hostility by other developers and ignored by product owners. The name of the game was hiring and firing.
Almost no corporate developers were doing anything that could be called engineering. Most of the people that were interested in actual engineering were writing open source outside of work.
* query a database
* run a web server, typically spring boot or a C# equivalent
* run some ridiculously large browser framework like Angular or React
Typically the end goal was just put text on screen and you need an entire army of developers to do it. Any suggestions that deviate from common patterns were met with hostility by other developers and ignored by product owners. The name of the game was hiring and firing.
Almost no corporate developers were doing anything that could be called engineering. Most of the people that were interested in actual engineering were writing open source outside of work.