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I've been a software engineer for awhile now, about 13 years full time, and I've grown to dislike the tech industry, but a large part of me wonders if I've simp
by tombert 4y ago
I've been a software engineer for awhile now, about 13 years full time, and I've grown to dislike the tech industry, but a large part of me wonders if I've simply become cynical enough to realize that tech isn't any better than any other industry like I previously thought.
I like my job, I've made a lot of really great friends, and I love hacking on software, but I've grown incredibly frustrated with how every tech company tries to convince me that I am saving the world by making the rich executives even richer. I hate that there's this bizarre culty loyalty expected of you at all times at FAANGs. I despise the double standard of "taking responsibility" that workers are supposed to have that executives simply lack.
Honestly, despite having worked in the industry full time for 12 years at the time, it took me being fully laid off last year to truly realize that it's ok for me to roll my eyes when given the typical bullshit; it's not a problem with me, and I suspect most professionals in most other industries have been doing that for forever.
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- tennisflyi 4y ago> to realize that tech isn't any better than any other industry like I previously thought Ding, ding, ding! Why would it be?
- tombert 4y agoI don't disagree, but there's a lot of collective brainwashing that goes on in tech, and people young in their careers cannot be fully blamed for buying into it. Nearly every tech job I've had has constantly reinforced that what we're doing is fundamentally saving the world; either by being more progressive than <industry X>, or by working on a solution to something that coincidentally also happens to be the cause of all of life's problems.