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To be honest, the technical problems are the easy thing in most companies since they just need a simple CRUD app and anything you do will be magic to most people regardless.

The politics are the difficult part of most work in this industry. Everyone has an agenda (which is not a bad thing) and serving multiple agendas will make your technical problems even worse.

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Depends where you work, if it's a dinky ecommerce site with no scalability issues, then coding is not a problem. But if it's a real product company with AI/ML engineering problems, then coding definitely is.

> a real product company with AI/ML engineering problems

I've worked in just about every industry in my career, yet to find a place where those engineering specialisations are make-or-break, or even necessary.

Same. Most product startups I've worked on where the business model seemed to be working, always the stability and scalability of the platform are the main problems.

Just because something (a simple CRUD app) seems simple to you, doesn't mean it'll be easy for everyone, in particular if you don't know what the quick ways are of doing it.

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