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That's what I've been doing the past few years! I was demoted when COVID hit and a bunch of jobs in my company disappeared, and have been happy as a clam ever s

• sacnoradhq 4y ago
  Cool. The department I'm at has a lot of people who have been (t)here a while. Some of the IC6-7's come across as big fish in a tiny pond robotic sociopaths. Manager no. 1 (HR) is a pushy, luxury SUV-driving, former IC who doesn't know anything about me or my work yet offers "advice". Manager no. 2 (technical group) is a former IC who: - Still plays at being a lead IC while also supposedly being an overworked manager - Believes the world is orderly, the impact of work is entirely quantitative, and lacks theory of mind - Believes he has a monopoly on good ideas - Shoots down everyone else's ideas - Refuses to concede any point or apologize in any context Manager above them is a good guy, but all of his direct reports come across as a-holes. I'm ready to bounce because: - My coworkers don't value software engineering, curiosity, professional development, excellence, experience, aren't supportive in any sense, and not people I would socialize with... they're really boring. The ex team lead is a cool guy and one of the hardware integration people is my kind of properly socialized, hilarious troublemaker. - On-call preventable fires happen often, sometimes in the AM - "Too overworked" to do anything right the first time, so tech debt accumulates and there's no incentive to fix anything - "Too overworked" and yet there's no possibility of new hires - No one cares about the tech or language we have to use. Customers complain about it - Nothing fun happens at work. Ever