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I think it's a lottery. You can be lucky and find good companies, or you can be unlucky and end up in toxic environments. Personally I was too trusting of teams who put their best foot forward in the interviews and are at best, misleading of the actual culture. It's a very abusive industry, especially working for start-ups.

I don't know about OP, but personally, I sold my house, moved to the third world, and retired in my mid '40s last year when it became clear I would never again a job making as much as I did in 2019. 2019: 325k. 2020: Laid off the day the Covid layoffs began. 2022: All salary ranges were below $150k.

I used to live this industry, but not enough to take a 55% pay cut and keep working 50-60 hour weeks. Fuck it.

The companies who have called me in the last 3 years have all been shitty crypto companies, half of which now bankrupt, so I decided 45 was a good day to buy a 16-unit apartment building in the Balkans become a rent seeking landlord.

Indians are hella racist towards Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, they also have a rich history of conquest and slavery.. But we're white so we're the bad guys.

Generation Z is going to be incredibly bitter that the boomers and genders sold them out to cheap foreign labor, and found it preferable to import foreign labor instead of educating our own people.

Good for India. Just like China, they will become a world power thanks to the American economy, then they will turn on us, become our enemies, and threaten to nuke us at every turn.