It has definitely gotten much worse. The only thing keeping me sane is hacking solo projects in languages with great tooling. I don't think I can even stomach interviews anymore, let alone the whole application process farce.
I remember doing an interview with systems design using microservices and mentioning at the end "Well I guess that's it but if this was my personal project I would just have a single server and no native cloud bs".
The guy basically answered "Oh, same. I just ask for people to do microservices because that's how the CTO wants".
The guy basically answered "Oh, same. I just ask for people to do microservices because that's how the CTO wants".