Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick
If I&#x27;m reading this right, the crux of the issue was overworked engineers and unproductive meetings that got heated between experts? And the resultant stress led to brain damage?<p>Personally, I don&#x27;t know any software teams that aren&#x27;t understaffed at best. Any project that has multiple stakeholders is going to have some meetings that feel unproductive with key leaders arguing for their best interests. That&#x27;s just the natural order of collaboration.<p>These are the kinds of posts that remind me how privileged high-skilled software engineers are. I am the first in my family to not work in some form of construction and can&#x27;t help but imagine how someone like OP would fare in that environment.<p>&gt; I spent the next couple years unemployed, working with my physicians to try and recover my health while occasionally writing code. I’m happy to report that I’m partially recovered at this point and being paid to work on open source, but I’ll never be the same.<p>Being able to take off 2 years to attend to personal health is a luxury pretty exclusive to tech (insofar as how available&#x2F;attainable it is).