Cloudflare employee records her layoff [video]

Lets start from the beginning. When most of these people are looking for a job in the first place even if they have a long standing history most of these jobs put them through a typical 8 hour long interview complete with cognitive tests. They put all the responsibility of success on the employee from the start even as early as the interview.

Then when you get the job the on boarding. OH god the on boarding... Most of these places expect that just because you have X or Y on your resume that you know inside and out their snow flake application which of the current staff their lead has typically turned over once a year and is so burned out they are the worst person to even offer help because they are toxic.

Then you get the constant pivoting. Management: We going to start out by doing two week sprints, one week in, we are going to switch to one week sprints. And after that, management wants to try kanbon all the while bugging about your KPIs

Say you manage to make it past that first 6 months. You realize that the next 6 months are going to be exactly as the last but worse because the lead toxic dev has just left and you are now the lead. Mean while they keep pivoting projects and goal posts but simultaneously asking you to do things that they have not even once tried to prepare for.

Finally you been there a year and most everyone who was there before you now is gone. And now you are the jaded burned out lead dev unwanting to go to meetings or be the person to tell the new devs how F'd everything is.

Also I've never once met a "scrum master" I liked. Just saying...