People go into Big Tech for all sorts of reasons. Big projects. Big tasks. Big tools. A big ego. A big algorithmic past. In short — everything has to be big.
Big. Big Tech.
Only one thing stayed big
But it just so happens that in recent years the only things that stayed big are the layoffs. The instability. The chaos. The politics.
You go on vacation — and your project gets rewritten. You miss a meeting — and the platform gets migrated onto a different platform.
Performance reviews every six months. Constant reorgs. AI hysteria. All the same problems every other company has — only bigger.
Big. Big Tech.
What it looks like from the inside
That deserves its own post. No time right now, though — I need to go check my email and see whether our team got reorged or laid off.
If not, this’ll be the sixth layoff wave I’ve survived. And the fourth manager change.
Big Tech has big problems, because it’s no longer attractive to a programmer.
Or is it still?