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Hi all, I work at a search engine giant as a software engineer in privacy. We worked on our privacy product over the past 4 years, launched it in beta and it was ready for production. Suddenly our head of cyber security comes out and says that "People used to care about privacy in 2019 but now they want AI" so they decide to kill our product and repurposed the org on adding LLM malware to the product instead. I get that it's a job that pays the bills but I enjoyed every role I had before this one. This one too, I loved the people I worked with and the product. But I can't deal with constant top level buffoonery. The job market is absolutely brutal, even more so in Canada. I remember being approached 10 times a day on LinkedIn at some point and now everywhere I interview, apparently I'm competing with someone with more experience than me while simultaneously accepting significantly lower pay. FML