80% of developers are not happy at work. Why? What makes them happy?

Only one in five professional developers are happy with their current job. Stack Overflow asked over 65,000 developers whether they were satisfied with their current role. Only 20% chose the option "happy at work".

Read the report here, and watch the Fireship video

Why aren't developers happy?

What makes developers happy most?

Happy, unhappy, or somewhere in between, all professional developers agree that improving quality of code and developer environments provide the most satisfaction at work.

Yes, collaboration debt is as real as technical debt.

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