Even in the US. It isn't like these opportunities are everywhere. As much as people pretend, it is in fact not easy to just uproot your family and move across

Even in the US. It isn't like these opportunities are everywhere. As much as people pretend, it is in fact not easy to just uproot your family and move across the country to work at a challenging startup. So there are good engineers that get stuck in BigCorp Jobs that do suck your soul, just like these online rants depict. Even stepping back and forgetting the ranting. All big human organizations, eventually become bureaucratic, and locked into hierarchies, and have a difficult time making decisions. And all of these things make IT and writing software very difficult. And, because of individual constraints on geography, family, etc.. good engineers do get stuck in these big organizations, and tend to suffer.