[omscs99]

Imo all of this talk about being “well treated” in SE is an utter load of shit

Regular office jobs don’t have oncall. They don’t get randomly pinged outside of business hours. They aren’t as rat racey. There’s less ageism. They don’t force you to live in areas where a shitbox sfh costs more than 2mil

Seriously, I wish I could go back to undergrad and tell myself to go into a regular engineering field. And my experience isn’t even the worst I’ve heard, just ask anyone from AWS and they’ll tell you

[tomduncalf]

A lot of tech jobs don’t have on call/out of hours expectations (in the UK at least). They’re probably not the top paying jobs at the prestigious companies, but that’s the trade off. I’m sure there are similar trade offs with the “best” jobs in other fields.

[Muromec]

Don’t work at big tech. If possible, don’t work with people buying into Protestant work culture.