I never really fit into any software engineering job I’ve had. The technical side of things got boring after I had gained a basic grasp of the inner logic of the codebase and no longer felt challenged, and then I wanted to do more, and more importantly - do it differently. I wondered about design decisions and their broader purpose: why are we doing this and why are we doing it in this specific way? Might there be a better way? What metrics are we using to determine success and why? Although the...