[roland35]

It's not just Meta, journalists and commenters even on tech sites like Ars Technica or Verge seem to love piling on any negative coverage about working at big tech companies (Google, Uber, even Apple occasionally).

I think Meta and Google are particularly disliked by journalists due to both specifically cutting into news industries. But I think a bigger part of it is the idea that software engineers are overpaid and spoiled brats!

[sahila]

Perhaps the simplest explanation is these kinds of articles get lots of clicks and views, I doubt most writers have a big agenda when starting an article like this.