<story><title>Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it&apos;s just another miserable corporate gig</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-employees-dissatisfied-jobs-new-data-labor-market-glassdoor-2023-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happytiger</author><text>This is, and the article points it out, the direct result of an excess number of managers and the explosion of management after the pandemic.&lt;p&gt;Silicon Valley was amazing because you could actually DO things and make an impact, but too much hiring added useless layers to the system. American management theory always tries to do this every tech cycle. That doesn’t work well with technical craft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ot1138</author><text>Not only an excess number of managers, but an excess number of poorly performing and poorly trained engineers.&lt;p&gt;2018-2022 was peak shit eating time for managers. I had to put up with no end of candidates who couldn&amp;#x27;t pass even the easiest technical exams (and we intentionally made them easy to weed out only the pretenders). Candidates would ghost interviews and after receiving an offer, would lean on it for a higher salary for anyone else. They wanted $250-300k with just five years experience. It was the frothiest and least professional recruiting environment I had seen in 35 years.</text></comment>
<story><title>Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it&apos;s just another miserable corporate gig</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-employees-dissatisfied-jobs-new-data-labor-market-glassdoor-2023-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happytiger</author><text>This is, and the article points it out, the direct result of an excess number of managers and the explosion of management after the pandemic.&lt;p&gt;Silicon Valley was amazing because you could actually DO things and make an impact, but too much hiring added useless layers to the system. American management theory always tries to do this every tech cycle. That doesn’t work well with technical craft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidivadavid</author><text>Hacker News really is like clockwork. Random &amp;quot;tech&amp;quot; industry problem? Gotta be &amp;quot;managers&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;designers.&amp;quot; Engineers can do no wrong.</text></comment>