Ask HN: New job at startup. I am overwhelmed. Is this normal?
Is this normal? Or is this specific startup that is making my life miserable?
Is this normal? Or is this specific startup that is making my life miserable?
The other extreme, is development at NASA, where productivity is 100 LOC per programmer per year. Can you imagine working one year on the same 100 Lines of Code, fine tuning them, testing them, debugging them, documenting them for one year?
When you'll feel better and unchallenged at this startup, you'll have the choice with a new startup with new challenge, or a normal programming job in the middle.
Or if the startup grows, eventually it should stabilize, with bigger teams, more communication, ie. more documentation will be needed, with more process to still keep the teams efficient (so you don't have to wait on colleagues to finish), etc.