I can't for the love of me understand how people bear to stay in tech for decades everything is just so broken and dysfunctional I joined [FAANG] three years ago and I probably thought of quitting every. single. day. since. parasitism is just a hugely underestimated problem - the parasites will stick to nice things like a leech and add weight to them until the thing can barely move at all they will mix with their host until they become undetectable, because there is no one sane up there who can see it all to eliminate them - it's just too big, too indirect, the information is too sparse the organization is so broken, so crippled, the incentives are misaligned everywhere, there is no leadership, no vision, no passion, no energy, I swear 2/3 of the company could get axed and things would move *faster* than before, if the right 1/3 remained I haven't shipped anything that mattered this whole time, I push 20x less code than I did before, and I still get promoted people jump from project to project leaving them in an arguably worse state than before, or milk projects for a promo before jumping ship immediately after launch, leaving it to the next loser to maintain and yet things... continue... to work the stock continues to rise I continue to make ridiculous money to pretend my work has any meaning to act like nothing is happening and to think about quitting, every day without ever doing it.