The familiar question "should I stay or should I go?" is common to programmers, or really anyone in a tech job. But it's tempting to just bail the moment you don't like some aspect of the job, hoping for greener pastures.

The flipside of this is when you probably should have left a long time ago but you stick around! Hey, I've been there. It's easy to have fear and blind spots make it hard to know what to do.

In this episode I share 7 signs it may be time to quit your toxic tech job and move on to something better. If you only see several of these signs, that's actually pretty normal. But if you're stacking up a bunch of these (or a few are particularly bad) you need to take action!

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CHAPTER MARKERS

0:00 Introduction
1:57 7 Signs it's Time to Quit Your Tech Job
2:42 1. Personal and Professional Stagnation
3:32 1.1 Self-Serving Pitching of Opportunities
4:42 1.2 Career Advancement Opportunities
6:15 2. Misaligned Goals or Ethics
6:22 2.1 Unethical Asks by Company
7:19 2.2 No Passion for Company
8:20 3. Toxic Work Environment
8:30 3.1 Poor Decisions by Management
9:47 3.2 Micromanagement
10:56 3.3 Lack of Support
11:50 3.4 Overwork Culture
13:15 3.5 Undervalued Employees
14:25 3.6 Rife with Politics
15:56 4. Work/Life Imbalance
16:04 4.1 Unsustainable Work Hours
16:59 4.2 No Flexibility
18:28 5. Compensation Below Industry Standard
19:08 5.1 Mismatch betweeen Qualifications and Pay
20:27 5.2 Lack of Benefits
21:31 6. Diminished Quality of Work
21:42 6.1 Lack of Motivation
22:28 6.2 Overlooked Contributions
23:24 7. Better Opportunities Elsewhere
23:41 7.1 Talk to People When Employed!
25:14 7.2 Failure to Follow Industry Changes
26:32 Episode Groove

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