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by throwawaysleep 1429 days ago
I am overemployed. That is, I work three full time remote jobs.

At all three orgs, there are developers rapidly burning out and the biggest problem is that despite major organizational crises, ranging from mass layoffs to mass turnover and the inability to fill half the seats on any given team (especially with team leads and senior talent) to enormous projects that have crept up in scope from 8 people to 60, there has been no acknowledgement by management that anything is even wrong.

At the company with layoffs, we are still working on product roadmaps from before, but now entire teams responsible for certain product dependencies are gone.

At the company that cannot fill half the seats, there are no truly senior devs and only two juniors and one intermediate/senior (me and I am not willing to fill a senior role). Our skip manager literally said "assume we have a senior dev or team lead for planning." They have not been able to hire one for 6 months now.

At the company with the project exploding in scope, it can take several weeks to get a meeting with key people as there are just so many wires crossing.

Not even a "we understand that X is not working" from management. Just them repeating goals and deadlines in all orgs.