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bob001 | 18 days ago

The job is 99% program management and 1% tech. It’s the government. Anyone focused on tech will burn out in 2 weeks and quit loudly via twitter. You know, like DOGE.

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ch4s3|18 days ago

Every tech person I know who tried to work in NYC government burned out rather quickly. The government is so sclerotic and shackled to laws meant to break up the Tammany Hall machine that its impossible to do anything good or fast.

steveBK123|18 days ago

A lot of stuff gets bid out, and the procurement process is overly burdensome...

Which results in a limited number of qualified bidders collecting rents, and then subbing out the work to subs who then sub it out further.. such that its all done offshore for peanuts while we pay real money to some schmuck who ticked the right boxes in order to collect said rents.

idop|18 days ago

If anything, the job is 99% awarding contracts and 1% monthly progress meetings.