Seeing a sudden surge in interest in the “Tech Right” as they’re being dubbed. Often the focus is on business motivations like tax breaks but I think there’s more to it. The narrative that silicon Valley is a bunch of tech hippies was well sown early on, particularly by Stewart Brand and his ilk but throughout that period and prior, the intersection between tech and authoritative politics that favours systems over people is well established.
From my experience, most software corpo employees are just tired parents with mortgages. Like the vast, vast majority. The higher up the pyramid you look the more cultish the vibes, though.
my experience is also primarily with tired parents with mortages… who blame minorities for their unhappiness (so they vote right-wing) and get all of their social and emotional fulfilment from work (so they willingly buy into the C-suite cult).
they are also usually so tech illiterate that they have the vibe of someone who never learned a trade and fell for the ‘learn to code’ advice at some point in their life.
I would love to work in that world. My experience is likely tainted by the jobs I got (past tense as I no longer work in tech; I’m in non-profit work now) having a lot of Junior devs straight out of college (and some interns still in college) so they hadn’t yet experienced enough of life to break out of these childish mentalities.
Their description definitely fits my workplace. We just want to get our 40 hours of work done and sign off and spend time with our families. Stability is really important.
Basically no juniors though, pretty much all seniors that are in their 30s and 40s.
In my experience, the places that are real boys clubs are startups, since they tend to be filled with 20-something tech bros with no families or attachments.