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0 pointsJudgmentality5y ago0 comments

> like, how can you work for a company like this and have a sort of Twilight Zone or Kafka novel experience for years and just be okay with it?

Realistically, the best and brightest left early and it's the people afraid of losing their jobs that feel compelled to shut up and toe the line.

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kbenson5y ago· 4 in thread

It would be easier to identify these places if it was the best and the brightest that left. Those with confidence and/or the financial stability to not worry about it can leave. There are plenty of very good and very bright people that don't fall into those categories for one reason or another (young, external factors making it risky to leave, etc).

Nasrudith5y ago

The problem is also that the best and the brightest aren't wearing always truthful signs on their head marking them as such. There is the bad manager spean "disgruntled former employee" to try to absolve themselves and try to discredit anything they may say.

If it was that obvious then we wouldn't even have interviews.

JudgmentalityOP5y ago

If you work in tech and you're very bright, it's trivial to see the signs of a bad workplace and be unable to find work elsewhere. I do not believe anyone would choose to stay if they were very talented, because it should have been obvious there were problems and it should have been easy to leave.

Everybody I know in tech that's any good has no problem finding a new job on short notice, including people with less than one year of experience.

A generation of tech employees that have never worked through a recession.

You're right, anecdotal knowledge does apply to everyone's job market... HN worldviews are wild sometimes

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