Got and accepted an offer just to show up day one to a weird point & click/drag & drop visual programming thing called BluePrism. Tried to make myself like it, but couldn't stick it out.
Moved 800 miles for that job too, just to get bait & switched.
I have to support clients who are all getting into RPA and wanting to know how to use it with our web app that was never designed with those in mind. If the tech were better, it’d be fine and I wouldn’t even know about it. As it is, it’s a ton more work for everyone involved than just asking us for an API. But then you don’t get to watch a browser window change magically in front of you, I guess.
I think it felt like an extremely arcane thing to learn and just not something exciting to work with.
Sometimes we forget how blessed we are with the DX in mainstream programming languages.
I made an honest effort to get into it for more or less those reasons. Now I'm just bumming around unsure of what to do.
A place I contract for did this, and then they bought something again 5 years later - still Lego development, but it doesn't do much to hide that it's a thin layer over ASP.NET WebForms so we're getting a bit closer to 2007 anyway.
Looks like a Visio type application that churns out code automagically, a bit like Scratch[1] for Grown-Ups.
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