Comments by "iorekby" (@iorekby) on "Why I left my $200k job as a Software Developer" video.

  1.  @lunasol0091  Because working for those companies my seem prestigious on the outside, but once you get in there it can be a slog. Plus the prestige of working in those companies wear off pretty quickly. Imagine being hired as a software engineer at Google only to find yourself writing documentation for 18 months. It happens. Or tight deadlines. Or awful managers. Or a cultist culture than insists on total compliance at all times.... Like imsrini said, there's a long line of engineers who went their and found out it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
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  2. @COOLBIAN57 Depends where you are at. I live in Ireland where a lot of tech companies set up their EMEA HQ. And trust me we cannot get the people here. Far more jobs than people.
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  3. Or worse...they get promoted to management positions. Which they then hate/aren't suited to.
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  4. Ha ha but that's very astute. "Being a programmer rocks! You gotta get in to it!" By someone who used to be a programmer lol.
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