[dahart]

> I fundamentally believe the job landscape now for developers is just systemically worse than it was a decade ago

What aspects are you thinking of, and what reasons do you suspect?

The single biggest change between now and 10/20/30 years ago is the number of developers, and my gut reaction is that this could explain all of the problems you listed and more. It’s not like there haven’t always been some crappy software companies, but in my lifetime we’ve gone from only a few niche companies doing primarily software to hundreds of thousands. The number of devs has grown more than an order of magnitude since I started coding.

The growth of the field means that the trends in business practices combined with the law of averages will result in more people have bad and mediocre experiences. But it also means that there’s a larger pool of excellent top-10% or top-1% places to work, we just have to find them.