>> *mumble something about the company not actually having any defined
>> direction*
>
> Certainly someone must have an idea what the company does.

Remember that "the company" consists of less than 10 humans [decimal]. 
When a company is that tiny, they don't necessarily have a grand 
"corporate vision" laid out in meticulous detail.

 From what I can gather, the business owner's plan is to make a product 
that does everything for everybody. Every time a customer mentions 
something the product doesn't do, we must immediately implement that 
feature.

I presume I don't need to explain why this is a flawed approach?

> You're very
> secretive about even where you work, so it's kinda difficult to provide
> specific information.
>
> What market does the company serve?  Who are its competitors?

Put simply, we make stuff used by several foreign governments, and if 
you want to know exactly what it does, you're going to need security 
clearance.

Not joking.

That probably makes it sound *far* more exciting than it actually is. 
But obviously I'm not going to sit here and talk about it on some random 
Internet forum that anybody can read.

What I can tell you is this: There are only so many governments in the 
world. So our market is small, and competing products number dozens 
rather than thousands or something.

>> Thing is, if I say "I wrote some code", that's too short. And if I
>> describe everything I implemented - even just the noteworthy stuff -
>> that's *way* too long.
>
> There's a middle ground.  "I wrote code that does 'x'" - as a summary,
> not a detailed description.

Well, this year I wrote code for about 25 different small tasks. A list 
of 25 items seems a little excessive though...

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