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The Simplest Resignation Letter
An occasion when personality, verbosity, and animosity are best left behind.
A short missive on the best and least effort approach to resignation in the Grand Game of Software engineering as many people, especially the denizens of HR, would have you believe that you must engage emotionally, somehow, when you decide to quit as they have your best interests at heart.
We pretty much all resign at some point, we all know people who’ve resigned, and if you haven’t done so already then at some point in the future you’re very likely going to resign.
It’s just one of those things that you do, and it’s extremely hard as a software engineer to avoid the scenario where you’ve just found a better job (that likely pays a lot more, has way less politics, and is very probably remote worked post-pandemic) and need to move on.
Either that or you’re just fed up to the back teeth with some kind of dysfunctional corporate status quo and need some real time to yourself, and not HR’s definition of wellbeing, so just want to get away, regroup, and inevitably after some time has passed engage once again with the nauseous merry-go-round of the LinkedIn centred software engineering recruitment process.
But, what to say in that all important letter, the piece of often virtual paper that has your unfamiliar…
