Metadata
- Author: Ludicity
- Full Title:: Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: bullshit jobs. the rise of pointless work and what can we do about it, Company culture,
- URL:: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/most-tech-jobs-are-jokes-and-i-am-not-laughing/
- Finished date:: 2024-05-02
Highlights
The tea is an eternal reminder of the gap between where I am, comfortable though it may be, and my fully realized potential. The tea causes me to radiate an aura that makes the thought leaders I know slightly uneasy around me (View Highlight)
the problem is that although I know many genuinely smart people, they all work at bad companies because I started at a bad company (View Highlight)
And to top it all off, I have the very serious constraint of wanting the work to benefit society unambiguously - and it is obvious that the strongest engineering culture in Melbourne exists at cryptocurrency companies, which I refuse to work for on principle. (View Highlight)
I scrubbed all the personality out of my CV and wrote the word “Snowflake” as many times as possible. If I was facing homelessness, I’d probably lie and write the word “React” as many times as possible and be employed in two days (View Highlight)
The CV-based market for serious people outside of FAANG is almost entirely fictional as far as I can tell. (View Highlight)
The most competent engineers I know (of the variety that want to work be on fulfilling teams, not use their power to try and transform dysfunctional teams into good ones) do not even flinch when I say something like “It feels as if 95% of engineering teams are cosplaying (View Highlight)