>>5878736There's a ton of programming jobs in other companies, you don't HAVE to do some agile bullshit in a tech startup where you'll get paid 3 onions lattes a day and owe 4 to your landlord. A lot of regular businesses will need some guys to handle server stuff or have some sort of R&D department where they'll have you build robots or apps for the previous robot. /g/ will have you think there's nothing except Google but seriously, if you see anyone selling anything electronic and are willing to relocate to a place with no taxes, no neighbors and no Starbucks, they probably have a vague position open for "some sort of C++ guy" you might have a shot at just because nobody else thought about it.
I work in some remote village making machines for the steel industry, automated quality control, labeling boxes, picking stuff from a conveyor belt, that kind of stuff, it's all fancy deep learning, x86 assembly because we need to process a shitload of data per second and state of the art servers and machinery. The pay is a bit shit because our boss thinks this is the 80s and we soft science queers should be grateful he gave us a job instead of teaching the forklift driver to write punch cards, but that's still 7 times my rent so it works out. I've never had any stand-up meeting, never ate tofu, and have no idea what a scrum master is or why I should let one write my unit tests.
Also there's no diversity thanks to big tech actively poaching everyone diverse in the field, we had a woman for a while but she got a better offer at IBM.
