Then don’t work in the Bay Area or Silicon Valley if you don’t like the culture. It’s not rocket science. There are 2.7 million developers in the US. Most do

Then don’t work in the Bay Area or Silicon Valley if you don’t like the culture. It’s not rocket science. There are 2.7 million developers in the US. Most don’t work on the west coast. It’s not ”irrelevant” to the discussion. You chose to work in toxic environments. You had agency to choose another type of culture. There are literally millions of developers in the US who made different choices. I in fact don’t know because I never worked on the west coast and I’ve done okay. I actively ignored software development jobs that would require me to deal with that Bullshit.