British developer Emmanuel Maggiori blog He described how IT companies set up their job responsibilities in such a way that “almost nobody works.”
“After many years of working in the tech industry, I’ve come to the conclusion that most people don’t work. I’m not saying we don’t work hard enough. I mean, we hardly ever work. Nothing. Puff,” he noted.
According to the programmer, even if experts like him do manage to do some work, it usually “only slightly improves the situation in the company.” “And all this with a salary that is bigger than some could have imagined,” Maggiori added.
He stated that the current situation in IT “could be one of the biggest market failures in history”. The developer cited as an example how he got a job at one of the most prestigious investment banks in the world.
“I’ve worked a total of about three hours since I started my job five months ago (not counting the Zoom group conversations I attended without paying too much attention),” Majori said.
He stated that he only received tasks that were “extremely easy to complete in just a few minutes, but that took days or even weeks for them.” “At first I wanted to speed up the process. But it soon became clear to me several times that I should not do this, ”the programmer explained.
Magiori concluded that too many people were responsible for the bank’s project, like many other companies, and that many “pretended to work”.
with a similar description spoke Britney Levy, an employee of the American tech company Meta (known and banned in Russia as an extremist), who lost her job during mass layoffs.