How tech workers feel about work

I appreciate that they tried to include many different tech company roles, not just software engineers. But maybe they over-indexed on "Product" which I assume to mean the "non-technical or semi-technical 'product owner' role who gathers and generates requirements, writes product product definition documents, prioritizes features and quality work, and so on." There are a very small number of people like this at most tech companies, but "Product" represented a whopping 44% of this survey's responses?

I think this is a(n accurate/expected) reflection of Lenny's readers/listeners, for better or worse

> Startup founders are the happiest people in tech

Well yea: they hold equity which is either going to go nowhere, but they are optimistic, or will explode into wealth. All the other tech hold non-founder stock and it will be diluted into irrelevancy for all but 3 or so people, so this is hardly surprising.

The cohort of founders in the business and able to be pessemistic about their future is .. defined-low?

When you dig into all the points, you'll notice that the root cause of all of them is detached, meaningless, corporatized management.