Sorry to hear all this. Honestly, given what you've gone through, I'd just avoid the start ups and go for 'boring tech', in an unambiguously useful and establis

Sorry to hear all this. Honestly, given what you've gone through, I'd just avoid the start ups and go for 'boring tech', in an unambiguously useful and established industry. Maybe energy, telecoms, banking etc. Go for a well established company but one with a good stack and modern ways of working. They do exist. You can have a good engineering culture and engaging projects, combined with a stable business model and sane management. Startups are high reward potentially because they're high risk. And a lot of these companies are doomed-to-fail, snake oil-peddlers. Choose carefully if you do carry on down that path.