theleftfielder

That is not at all what that law is saying. You can absolutely pay differently based on "bona fide factors" such as experience and job performance. Do you really think everyone with the title "software engineer" at a huge company varying from 0-20 YOE is going to be paid the same? No, they will be positioned differently within a salary band based on experience and job performance. You have clearly never managed a large team or organization and done comp planning for them.

I think the biggest one is that most people's social lives also dried up during the pandemic. You weren't finishing up WFH and then rushing out to get dinner and see a movie with friends. You weren't traveling or taking vacation. I've had a lot of conversations with people on my team over the last year that were some version of:

Them: "I finished this over the weekend."

Me: "That's great, but you're to be clear you're not expected to do that. You should feel free to take weekends off to recharge!"

Them: "Yeah but what else am I going to do right now?"

If there hadn't been a pandemic, they would've been doing all of these other things and then more likely to cut back on work when the end of work hours roll around.

It's funny to see this towards the top of the comments here. Feels like not that long ago that Telegram updates would be downvotes on HackerNews because "you should never trust an app that designed their own encryption protocol."

We actually had a production outage due to a `terraform destroy` typed in production instead of dev.

$5 seems like way too low of a fee for a dress worth > $100 to prevent potential damage. That's going to be less than the cost of the drink that I spilled on it.

So I'm a female software engineer (the only one on our team of ~50), and I couldn't really identify with most of the posts on here. Am I just really lucky, and work for one of the few good companies out there?