Many of those posts were made by recruiters! They were ads for the company.

For many of us slogging away in retail or made unemployable by "5 years of experience"-ism, those were a barrage of "let them eat cake" moments. The delta between that quality of life and the average Zoomlennial's (the real average, not what any given coastal publication might have you believe) is unconscionable and in no way justified by apparent differences in capability. I watch luxury mansion tours for fun, and not one has made me nearly as furious as one of those DITL videos. They make the tech industry look like an upscale daycare for the adult children of the right class of global citizens, and no one else.

lmao, way to set expectations. Also, what type of person were they trying to recruit with that sort of thing? The Lotus Eater tribe?

I don’t get the extreme focus on eating and drinking. Nearly every shot involves food and drink. These companies have so many perks to brag about, but all these young “influencers” talk about is eating and drinking all day long. Are Gen-Z people starving or something?

I (and many other engineers I work with) often get so engrossed with work I forget lunch. Who are these people stuffing their faces all day?

These people are “eating out”, and eating out is a luxury; hence, the videos promote the idea of a luxurious job (without, apparently, and real work to be done).

What makes those videos infuriating is that they miss out… any of the parts where she does actual work? And that’s a video choice not an indictment of the industry. Surely nobody thinks everyone at linkedin just wonders round the office sipping mojitos for 10 hours a day.

Between the sheer number of people getting axed in layoffs and the amount of, "Yeah I actually only do like 2 hours of work a day," boasts, it doesn't sound so farfetched. They're surely not doing something so technical and important that they deserve that versus, say, the person dealing with screaming, irate customers in a pharmacy for 8 hours (also, you can't sit, no sitting allowed, it looks lazy).