As someone who is working in a very large tech company, I see one of the strong reasons as why employees are not motivated is because the returns for working hard and delivering results is not there. Things like promotions, pay rises are always not explained and the expectations for promotion is never clearly communicated, intentionally kept vague and consequently the individual is not clear what more to do and is frustrated. Once these large companies find out you are good in one thing, they really want you to keep doing that one thing day in and day out.

Add immigration related uncertainty on top of this, wherein people on H1B, and awaiting Green Card cannot easily quit and change job, it directly correlates to lot of burnt out people just waiting for their immigration situation to change to get out and that wait can take years.

I got an email from Coinbase recruiter asking for an interview like 3 weeks ago about how they are in "hyper growth" stage. I said no because I was not confident that Coinbase will ride out the current market effects without layoffs. From "hyper growth" hyperbole to rescinding offers in 3 weeks. Damn, that is rough.

Yeah they hit me up about a month ago. I've been a crypto-skeptic for a while so I chose to not step up to that slot machine. The pay was usually really good, and the work is interesting, but I can't sleep at night knowing that I'm helping scam people.