Stack Overflow Survey: 80% of developers are unhappy
Stack Overflow Survey: 80% of developers are unhappy
This year, as expected, the main topics in the Stack Overflow survey were use of AI and dissatisfaction in the workplace.
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I would say 80% of employees are unhappy, but I don't have any data to back this up.
Every job lately seems to have been infected by Meta/google "data driven" leadership. Its so painful and wasteful sometimes.
20 years ago it was the people who worshipped Jack Welch, not realizing (or not caring) that he was running GE into the ground.
Yeah. I, like most leaders, spent some time learning all that crap. It was awful and worse than useless.
Google and Meta's secrets are recruiting top talent to for top dollars, and then buying every start up that threatens their empire. There's no secrets to great management to be had there.
I just threw out my copy of "product engineering at Google".
Can confirm. Was quite unhappy in my mechanical engineering job, had an opportunity to develop something nice in python, was told we'd do it in excel/vba instead, still unhappy.
was told we'd do it in excel/vba instead, still unhappy.
I just threw up in my mouth a little. Fifteen years ago, "I'll stick to Excel" was a (bad, but) defensible position in data automation. Today that's just insanity.
Nice. You can put that on your resume so you can get more of those kinds of jobs.
(/s. I like excel to a point but i really feel your pain too-- and fuck vba)excel has python support now! you may still get away with it
It's cloud based though... Not ideal. I get why they had to do that (they didn't want to expose people to the Python infra shit show) but it's still kind of a shame.
Would be better if they added Typescript support IMO.
...like the js infra stuff isn't it's own special nightmare?
oh no...
Or maybe 80% of people are unhappy. No data here either
80% seems too high, but the US Surgeon General declared a loneliness epidemic https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf
And Gallup claims that 29% of Americans have been diagnosed with depression at one point: https://news.gallup.com/poll/505745/depression-rates-reach-new-highs.aspx
So... That is not good. It is almost like humans evolved to live in tight knit, walkable communities.
80% of beings in the multiverse