thinnerlizzy

And note that many, many companies still do not understand UX. There's a good chance your interviewer/manager will have little to no understanding of UX. They will favor the visual beauty of your work over any of the aforementioned qualities that make a great UX designer.

Comcast's password recovery is pretty weak. I just did it last night. They ask for your zip code and your favorite sports team. If I have a Boston zip code there are likely only 4 options for favorite sports team.

Not getting into the for/against Drupal thing, but I wonder what percentage of Drupal admin users are non programmers. I've built a lot of Drupal sites and exactly zero non programmers have ever done anything more than use pre-existing fields.

I will say that I think it's a noble goal to allow non programmers to build something powerful, but in my experience it translates to programmers being able to build features insanely quickly rather than handing that power over to non programmers. Maybe it's different in other sectors.

Farmer's markets have them.

The shut-up-and-keep-coding places that treat programmers like line workers are often the same types of poorly managed places that overpromise on deadlines, so 9-5 doesn't exist, refuse to matriculate full-time workers, so benefits don't apply, and don't pay anywhere near 200% of median household income. There are lots of companies that don't fit your model. It often has very little to do with climate-controlled office environments.

Agree. It's why I got out of full-time, on-site programming. If I'm going to be doing it, it's going to be on my terms. And the freelance market has been pretty responsive to that.

Or less overstated language about their accomplishments. They certainly don't tolerate even a smidgen of it with their interviewees.