Exactly. Working at Meta means you studied for 4 weeks for the leetcode interviews. That type of dedication means you could very easily get any job anywhere else.

And please don't compare someone making 800k$ with someone scanning a ticket for Ticketmaster.

How am I doing that? I'm talking about people who have very valid options elsewhere.

"I'm stuck at Meta, making $800K, I have no other options". We're talking about software engineers who created much of the things they're complaining about.

I'm not talking about say, cafeteria or custodial staff.

And I despise Meta, and you can say whatever you want about Leetcode (and I tend to agree) but don't pretend that there are many many rungs of "software engineering calibers" in jobs that wouldn't see Meta, or Netflix and say "we have to interview this person".