The ongoing tech purge is well deserved. No one in this forum cares about tech and building stuff. Mostly leetcode monkeys and spoiled tech bros. Most tech products are over engineered and out of touch. Software is actually getting worse and slower. Layoffs are completing FAANGs transformation into IBM, they will slowly rot and become corporate traps. The real stuff is happening in startups with strong vision and products that are useful. Big tech and vc-backed scams are slowing down, good tech can finally shine. I come from the hacker and bootstrap culture, and I'm so glad the tech bros are gone. I deeply love tech and am happy to build useful and innovative stuff TC 300k
Products are over-engineered and tech is getting worse because everything is over-managed with buy-ins from every dumb fuck SEO marketer or sales manager. 15 years ago “PM” was virtually unheard of and now there are multiple of them for every team, and all they do is make development worse by slowing down processes with unnecessary overhead or prioritizing revenue initiatives over QoL. The focus is ALWAYS “how can we make more money” and not “how can we make a good product” these days. That’s not on the devs.
Agreed. But these companies always existed, but this time they trapped the world's best talent for a decade with golden handcuffs. I'm glad they're finally free now
If you're running a company without PM, you might be missing out
Last tech recession engineers were homeless in Austin. But that’s a good thing?
It's not tech's fault if the US has a poor social system
It was definitely better back in the day when tech didn’t pay crazy but it paid enough and the people doing it liked it, not just money.
Tell us more about the path breaking work you do at ‘new’
Tell us more about the path breaking work you do at Salesforce 🤡
I don’t do path breaking work - I do it for the money. That’s the point. You’re the one making claims about doing great work so put up or shut up
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I am 7-foot-1-inch tall and bench press 350 daily. My bodycount is 10+ per week and i ship minimum 200k LOC per week - bug free. I type simultaneously on two different M3 macbooks with my left and right hand. Currently i am learning to type with my feet and hands at the same time like a hacker spider. I am the alpha tech bro from the future.
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Goals 🤣
One of my companies laid off 75% of people and I was still there. It doesn't make sense to sweat over 10-20% layoffs.
Layoffs or not, I believe we are more useful to society and fulfilled outside of 2024 faang
Our product is stock, not innovation. You’re after the wrong people. Code monkeys do not decide the direction.
Yes, but we've decided to get golden handcuffs and suffer the corporate bullshit, and this recession is making us realize there's a world outside of big tech
Yeah “we’ve decided to suffer” because we all are independently wealthy.
As someone with 15 YoE, having seen people who would have studied Business Management in 2010, instead study CS purely because of potential earnings, it has ruined the industry’s culture. I completely agree.
I love tech but all the good tech isn’t where I live. The few startups we have pay literal 🍌. so I enjoy big tech money instead
You can cash out at big tech but still ship useful stuff on the side. I started my current job like that
Like start your own project or as a contractor for a startup? I do my own projects but I wouldn’t call them “useful” 😂