[curiousguy]

> Because if you do a solid good job that's a 2, but a couple 2s fairly quickly gets you on the RIF train to getting fired.

This definitely seems bad, but it’s not common in every tech company. Maybe is something in your company or city/country?

I worked in a few countries and I’m UK at the moment. Large corporations do have performance reviews, but there is no expectations that everyone needs to over achieve.

If your job is burning you out, maybe is worth it to look around for a new one. Is the high salary of FANG worth it? “Boring companies” can still pay good enough and have really interesting tech challenges.

> None of this nonsense exists in other industries, at least as far as I know from talking about it with my circle of connections in other professions such as law, medicine, accounting.

Maybe not in the same way, but they still have their own struggles to progress in their careers. The main difference is that the tech industry doesn’t have labor regulations and every company needs to do their career progression.

However, Law can be as bad on that, lawyers need to grind for years before getting seniority and higher salaries.

Medicine and accounting is extremely government regulated and you need to get specific certification to pass to the next role. So there is a lot of pressure to get those.