I'd love to work on something agricultural but have 0 skills in that area. What use can a software eng be? Any notable companies which still act a bit like tech companies?
Most of my experience out of the tech world has been really painful, e.g. business devs writing 50-page "product specs" to go and implement over 2 years, or saying they want tech workers but actually wanting IT support.
I'd bet John Deere, Caterpillar and Syngenta all operate this way.
> Most of my experience out of the tech world has been really painful, e.g. business devs writing 50-page "product specs" to go and implement over 2 years
So are you expecting agro-tech to be different somehow? Why? If they are a true "tech company" they will be expecting 10x-100x returns and have similar problems. If they aren't, then they won't "act a bit like tech companies".