I am sorry to hear that you had a poor experience and it is true that a toxic culture can be endemic. However, your experience is not normative based on the be

I am sorry to hear that you had a poor experience and it is true that a toxic culture can be endemic. However, your experience is not normative based on the best data available for the industry: https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/igda-website/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/29093706/IGDA-DSS-2019_Summary-Report_Nov-20-2019.pdf https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/igda-website/wp-content/u... Every year the IGDA publishes the Developer Satisfaction Survey that gives both a snapshot and longitudinal picture of the industry. The trends around things like work-life balance, diversity in the workplace and in the products themselves, and future outlook are all positive and have been for awhile. Most game developers day-to-day reality looks nothing like your experience, yet that impression lives on despite the reality on the ground.