[ap22213]

I suggest finding another job; they're really not all like the one described. (But, I've been there!)

Even I, who works for a mega corp, have little or none of this. But, I work in a small group, and not in IT but in product development. (I can't claim that the other 39,980 employees feel similarly, though.)

With demand for developers so high, it makes sense to move around until you find a place that feels right.

[dworin]

This is a great point - the culture of a workplace has more to do with the culture of your team and the quality of your immediate management than it does with the organization. There are people in small startups who are miserable at work every day because of bad management, and people who work in large companies that are excited to go to work and make a difference.

We usually think small companies have better management, but that's survivor bias - the ones with bad management tend to fail, or not scale up. And the people who are in large organizations that like their job tend to write about it less, because they're able to think about other things.