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It's really sad how the most well-payed engineers and designers are spending the best years of their lives working on this hostile platform. I'm so tired of bei
by polytely 6y ago
It's really sad how the most well-payed engineers and designers are spending the best years of their lives working on this hostile platform. I'm so tired of being treated like garbage by these companies, I just hope there is some tipping point, a straw that finally breaks the camels back, that leads to their downfall.
- swyx 6y agonot to put it too bluntly but they're well paid because we as a society keep paying them to. in attention and then in money.
- HenryKissinger 6y ago"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads"
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoWhen I was looking for a new SWE job in 2016 after my startup laid off a third of its employees the vast majority of open positions in other startups were in "analytics", marketing or advertising-related companies. And similarly most of the positions that Amazon, Facebook and Google recruiters have approached me for are also in that field (even though I don't have any professional experience in that area, nor any keywords in my LinkedIn profile). I understand it's where the money is, and it's probably a good idea to work in a profit-center for once instead of being viewed as a cost-center by the MBAs, but I still have a soul.
- reaperducer 6y agoIt's really sad how the most well-payed engineers and designers are spending the best years of their lives working on this hostile platform I'm at the age where I'm starting to look back at the various phases of my life and think about whether they were wasted or not. A lot of my similarly-aged friends are doing the same. Some who worked for the wrong tech companies really regret it now. At the time they thought it was cool because they were living the tech dream. Now they wonder what it was all for.