Comment by scarface_74

When was anyone naive enough to think their company cared about them?

On the other hand, why should a company keep people around that they don’t need?

And the last point, speaking more about Microsoft/Amazon/Google, if you have worked for either company for any length of time, there is no excuse for you not to have a nice nest egg to tide you over especially considering the severance amounts they give you.

You might be forced to sully yourself and become an “enterprise developer” and make around what most of the 2.8 million developers in the US.

And yes, I did a bid at Amazon and within three years, I paid off some debt, saved a chunk of change, got my 3.5 months severance package and found another job quickly that was my target compensation (not enterprise dev).