i think one of the problem is the company itself.. some company treat their IT staff like company kuli where they ask u to type the company sales document, write letter using word while the job scope is to maintain company server.. one of my friend quit the job because of tat and he work in singapore.. i tot singapore would be better than here.. rupa rupanya same only..

Another problem is company do not do a proper planning before develop a software. They just copy the last project and do major customization on it until the program look bulky and unstabble. Code is a mess. Then new guy would have trouble to identify the correct flow because there is no documentation about the software they building. They built wat they think is right for them until customer say it is wrong then developer had to correct it. Project like this is 100% total failure because customer would not know until they finally use it for few week. By tat time the deadline is already pass.

Not to say wat but i think what my previous boss say is true. Last time development is more standard because it quite new. He told me last time he as a project manager he hired those peo with experience in the fields. Like the module is tax. then he will find top 10 peo who know tax veli well. put them into a room with those developer and customer's staff and ask them to come out with a best flow.. by the time my ex boss will have a very tick documentation. He told me the document is as tick as those yellow pages. Sent the document and ask the customer to sign it and verify. If customer sign then the system flow is verify n only start develop. If any changes during the develop he will ask the customer to request and pay for the changes. Because he already old n let those younger generation to rules the company until the company loss money.

Now peo are looking for short cut by just customize the previous program whereby both company policy is not the same. It was like a mess as time pass. Day by day code is modify until slow down the system performance.

So if the company sux no matter where is the company it still sux

I do experience myself in a project that BIG scope which programmers and system analyst expected completiton time ll required at least 90 working main days.

However, bcos of the project manager wanna "show off" his capability to top management  then cut the project development time to 20 days that even the days including requirement and analysis ....

I asked him go back sleep tight and changed my job immediately...and at the end in the 19th days most of the involved staffs throwing letter and ask him code himself....

hahha...