The Great Resignation is becoming a “great midlife crisis” (opens in new tab)

Loyalty has go both ways. Let’s not forget that the tech industry not so recently conspired to hold down compensation by engaging in secret but pervasive “no poaching agreements.” Let’s not also forget that the tech industry has harnessed vast, unprecedented levels of profits on the strength of the work of engineers, the industry cannot exist without our work, and when profit growth dips below “Wall Street expectations,” management doesn’t hesitate to throw thousands to tens of thousands of loyal tech workers to the wolves. The industry also frowns on frontline engineers (ie non-executives) getting old. Actually, even executives aren’t safe in tech.

If the fed has anything to do with it we will be in one by year end