‘Data Engineers Should Be Held to the Same Standards as Bakers’

Over at Hermit Tech, Jordan Andersen laments over embarrassingly low project delivery expectations within the software and data industry when compared to other professions such as the one of a baker. His concern, however, is not only with the customers of the project, but with the developers:

The latter consequence of low expectations is the more serious one. It’s something that some people may never recover from. […] The trajectory of a data or software engineer seems to be a bit different: they burn out from the mental stress of working in dishonest and fraudulent cultures that produce unsatisfying work, but the engineer stays in the profession. Only they’re a shell of a human.