‘I was just making money’: Netflix engineer leaves $450,000-a-year job out of boredom

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to think after advising him that quitting without another job lined up meant giving up “the leverage I had with my high salary at Netflix.” Despite his advice, Lin left just three days later.

"The projects and meetings blended together, and they felt like small variations of each other after a while," he notes. "The engineering work began to feel like copy and paste."He notes that the COVID-19 pandemic removed all the things that made his job enjoyable and left only the actual work. This further waned his motivation and heavily affected his work performance, resulting in a negative performance review from his manager in April 2021.

 

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