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Jul 17, 2026 · Industry Insights

7 Strange Phenomena Shaping Today’s IT Industry

The article lists seven recurring oddities in the IT world—from meeting addiction and tech‑snobbery to rewrites for performance scores, flashy hackathon projects, hiring paradoxes, age discrimination, and the contradictory practice of laying off staff while still recruiting—illustrating how these patterns affect engineers’ daily work and career prospects.