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Unusual project.
Some time ago (but within the current decade) it happened to me to be a senior C++ developer in a famous international corporation which doesn't work in Russia any longer. The corporation works according to oursource/outstuff business model, particularly for this project out customer was one German automotive firm. My responsibility there was an unusual project that I always struggle to describe. Let's judge yourself about that: desktop application for Windows written in C++ Qt\QML without any network interactions and even without SQL-queries I mean at all. Well, what the hell can it be then? Perhaps, it appears to be some kind of crap: the app parses XML-based files and provides handy graphical user interface to edit those files. That's all. As a result: lots of untrivial tasks had been done almost without making usual forms. #job #Qt #QML #C++ #English #automotive #c_plus_plus
Some time ago (but within the current decade) it happened to me to be a senior C++ developer in a famous international corporation which doesn't work in Russia any longer. The corporation works according to oursource/outstuff business model, particularly for this project out customer was one German automotive firm. My responsibility there was an unusual project that I always struggle to describe. Let's judge yourself about that: desktop application for Windows written in C++ Qt\QML without any network interactions and even without SQL-queries I mean at all. Well, what the hell can it be then? Perhaps, it appears to be some kind of crap: the app parses XML-based files and provides handy graphical user interface to edit those files. That's all. As a result: lots of untrivial tasks had been done almost without making usual forms. #job #Qt #QML #C++ #English #automotive #c_plus_plus
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Weird project.
To cut long story short, the company from https://t.me/SomeDevelopersNotes/4 decided to leave Russia, the developers were offered to move to Serbia with the same (humble) salaries, as a consequence most of them (including me) made up their minds to change job in pursue of better conditions.
So, once upon time I found myself working in a Russian company whose main niche is "import substitution". Surely an interview that I passed to get this job as well as interviews in IT industry in general deserves its own posts, so I'll keep silent here about it. Getting back to the job, initial project description given by a team leader sounded pretty interesting: web-engine, no deadline, take your time to dive into it. In the reality it turned out to be a small poorly functioning library written in C++\Qt which provides a highly inconvenient QML-component. All this crap can render only very limited subset of HTML tags and there was another application also developed by this company where to this component was integrated. Because the current functional covered all the requirements there was no actual business tasks and there weren't even planned in the foreseeable future. The team leader gave tasks according to the idea: "we're developing a Chrome substitution". As a result, 6 months later the company realized that no one needed the project, the budget was optimized. #job #C++ #Qt #QML #weird #English #c_plus_plus
To cut long story short, the company from https://t.me/SomeDevelopersNotes/4 decided to leave Russia, the developers were offered to move to Serbia with the same (humble) salaries, as a consequence most of them (including me) made up their minds to change job in pursue of better conditions.
So, once upon time I found myself working in a Russian company whose main niche is "import substitution". Surely an interview that I passed to get this job as well as interviews in IT industry in general deserves its own posts, so I'll keep silent here about it. Getting back to the job, initial project description given by a team leader sounded pretty interesting: web-engine, no deadline, take your time to dive into it. In the reality it turned out to be a small poorly functioning library written in C++\Qt which provides a highly inconvenient QML-component. All this crap can render only very limited subset of HTML tags and there was another application also developed by this company where to this component was integrated. Because the current functional covered all the requirements there was no actual business tasks and there weren't even planned in the foreseeable future. The team leader gave tasks according to the idea: "we're developing a Chrome substitution". As a result, 6 months later the company realized that no one needed the project, the budget was optimized. #job #C++ #Qt #QML #weird #English #c_plus_plus