I wouldn’t count out the thought that there are many brainless people who convince themselves what’s “VCs will like” is “what they wish would exist”.

This is my biggest blocker to leaving software.

Anything else that interests me, STEM or non-STEM is pointless without a PhD or a decent masters program at least. I don’t even have an undergrad degree. I was more or less willing to bite the bullet until I got laid off and had to start oissing away my savings trying to find another job I hate this time with less pay less enticing benefits in a shittier market, and it doesn’t seem like it’s possible now or in retrospect. Even if I did manage it, I’d have to lose basically the rest of my life to go all in on one thing in hopes it works out.

> IIRC his time in the industry ended after he ran his studio into the ground by making an overwatch clone with boring characters, then trying to pivot to a Fortnite clone

Tbh this kinda just feels like the industry playbook.

Maybe people should start overturning their busses again.

> You can justify horrible atrocities if you strongly believe in extreme outcomes.

Yeah.. that’s the goal.

> I regret not coming in my original post armed with evidence.

This site is full of liars and sophists, among other scum. It frankly doesn’t matter whether you bring evidence or not.

Tbh I wasn’t paying attention, but in retrospect the signs were obvious:

1. We were owned by a PE company. I should have been more alert if no other reason, but this.

2. Company was banking on a strategy that wasn’t working. Not to go too much into what was happening, but the company had some established legacy products that most of the customers were still using. However majority of the hiring and work being done was all-in on there new suite of software under which the whole company revolved. However they were seeing very little adoption . I worked very close to customers and what I saw was that customers just did not want the new software. I didn’t do what they wanted and was filled to the brim with buzzword-tier features and concepts that no one really cared about.

3. There were a few signs my manager mentioned to me after the layoffs, but I hadn’t been paying too much attention to. There were some sudden reorg choices that didn’t affect me too much, but more than that, there was a seemingly desperate rebrand announced some time before. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, but in the context of 2) it seems more clear. There were also a number of curious lower level executive departures in the months prior.

It was a small SaaS company and they ended up dumping around half of us in late 2022. Not sure what they’re up to now. They’ve done yet another rebrand since and little information remains regarding the old company name and endeavors.

> I've never had an upper class life, quite the opposite. What's a shithead? You mean someone privileged like you are now?

Notice how they always accuse others of what they themselves are.

> 2x WFO/week is actually quite comfortable for me.

Just started a new job a few months ago that was 2x WFO. Worked out fine, didn’t mind.

Of course upper management is now planning for a full RTO. While also worrying about potential retention problems lol.

Not when they can fight another culture war battle!