> The common theme in the posts is people who had quite comfortable positions at their previous employer but maybe didn’t realize it at the time. They went out

> The common theme in the posts is people who had quite comfortable positions at their previous employer but maybe didn’t realize it at the time. They went out and got higher paying jobs at companies that were desperately in need of engineers where they tend to have higher wages, shorter interviews to get people in the door. When the new job demands higher performance commensurate with the higher compensation and the company want everyone performing at a high level, it comes as a shock to the system to people who were accustomed to lax companies with lax delivery schedules. That's me! The new company lured me in with a lot of money, but they were a dysfunctional mess (nobody even knew what the architecture is...). I quit after two months.