Everyone thinks this is an exaggeration but there are so many...

Everyone thinks this is an exaggeration but there are so many software engineers, not just at FAANG, who I know personally who literally make ~2 code changes a month, few emails, few meetings, remote work, < 5 hours/ week, for ~$200-300k.

Here are some of those companies:

Oracle
Salesforce
Cisco
Workday
SAP
IBM
VMware
Intuit
Autodesk
Veeva
Box
Citrix
Adobe

The “quiet quitting” playbook is well known:

- “in a meeting” on slack
- scheduled slack, email, code at late hours
- private calendar with blocks
- mouse jiggler for always online
- “this will take 2 weeks” (1 day)
- “oh, the spec wasn’t clear”
- many small refactors
- “build is having issues”
- blocked by another team
- will take time bcuz like “race condition”
- “can you create a jira for that?”

And no, AI is not writing their code. Most of these people are chilling so hard they have no idea what AI can do.

Most people in tech were never surprised that Elon could lay off 80% of Twitter, you can lay off 80% of most of these companies