alt Hacker NewsI'm joking yes but as an engineer who has seen the bureaucracy in most big tech companies, the joke is getting less funny over time.
I've met many software engineers who call themselves communists. I can kind of understand. This kind of communist-like bureaucracy doesn't work well in a capitalist environment.
It's painful to work in tech. It's like our hands are tied and are forced to do things in a way we know is inefficient. Companies use 'security' as an excuse to restrict options (tools and platforms), treat engineers as replaceable cogs as an alternative to trusting them to do their job properly... And the companies harvest what they sow. They get reliable cogs, well versed in compliance and groupthink and also coincidentally full-blown communists; they're the only engineers remaining who actually enjoy the insane bureaucracy and the social climbing opportunities it represents given the lack of talent.
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Sounds like you should just leave the company if you are that unhappy
Bruh, with some very rare exceptions like valve, every company is run as a dictatorship or oligarchy. That goes beyond tech, hell big tech at least gives some agency to their engineers.
The only way you don’t need to be versed in compliance or group think at a US firm as an employee is to either be
1) independently wealthy, so your job is a hobby you can walk away from
2) have some leverage on a currently in demand skill, but the second that leverage evaporates they will demand the compliance
Also I realized I undersold it, they aren’t just run as dictatorships/oligarchies, they are usually run as command economies as well.
The whole capitalist competition style behavior only happens with inter firm interactions, not internal ones
I understand completely.
I'm going through a computer engineering degree at the moment, but I am thinking about pursuing Law later on.
Looking at other paths: Medicine requires expensive schooling and isn't really an option after a certain age and law, on the other hand, opened its doors too widely and now has a large underclass of people with third-tier law degrees.
Perhaps you can try to accept the realities of the system while trying to live the best life that you can?
Psyching yourself all the way, trying to find some sort of escape towards a good life with freedom later on...