At FAANG, it typically works like this.
What's really striking to me is the rate of attrition. Can anyone explain it?
Aren't these good jobs? Aren't there less opportunities for good jobs for them to be able to churn to?
Where are they going? Why do they churn at such high rates?
These are not just unproductive environments, they're unpleasant. Having to be "on" for 8 hours a day because you don't even get a vague idea of privacy is exhausting.
I'm all for improved working conditions but some software developers are entirely too precious. What we do isn't special.
“This coffee isn’t hot to me, so it can’t be hot to you.”
There are people all over the technology sector that suffer from various issues that make the “modern” office an absolutely unproductive, overwhelming shitshow.
You might also be frustrated if you’re asked to meet unreasonable goals in an environment where you can’t get anything done, at a company that doesn’t give you any options or agency over your work space.
It’s not the workplace suffering olympics. We don’t need to figure out whose cornering the market on bad working conditions to acknowledge that that issue spans industries.