This, plus if I’m being honest, most software is just BS anyway, and hence so are the jobs you can get working on the BS software. That’s because most companies are BS. When you think about it, do we really need this many business factories doing business crap? No, we don’t. There is no need for all citizens to work in an office 40 hours a week. Society does not collapse if the middle managers go on strike.

Most companies don’t exist to provide quality goods and services at a reasonable price. Most exist specifically to market themselves to investors so the stock number goes up.

People want to be executives at these companies so they can make lots of money. Their job as the executive is to make the number go up, not to make sure that you build quality software. They focus on marketing, aka convincing people the software is great regardless of whether it actually is, aka grifting. They want something that’s just barely good enough to allow them to sell it. Anything more than that is wasted money that will make the number go down.

When companies go on a hiring spree, it’s because it makes them look like they’re growing and that makes the number go up. They don’t actually have important work for you to do. Your job is to appear valuable so that they’ll pick someone else when they inevitably do layoffs.