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[โ€“] ptrckstr@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quit my corporate job for a small place with a mission to do good. Never going back to bigtech.

[โ€“] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I fucking hated work for big tech. Like every single creative part of me was being sucked away.

I work for a corporation you have never heard of now. We are a subcontractor of a subcontractor and get to do the actual engineering. There is a towering bureaucracy above us that adds no value and gets all the credit. Which I am fine with, they can have the credit I have the glory.

[โ€“] ptrckstr@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Same here, really didn't have the feeling I was doing much fruitful work at all. So much energy spent in meetings, and political nonsense.

It's refreshing to just get to focus on getting things done.