Every year there's some new survey saying something different is the most important factor to happiness at work. I thought the Google research which determined that psychological safety was the most important factor was really interesting because it didn't rely on multiple-choice surveys.

I'd almost rather just read like ten mini-essays from ten randomly chosen developers who try to explain what makes them happy at work in their own words. I mean, I have conversations like that with people at work and I've never heard anyone say "salary" is the most important. Usually it's feeling proud at having solved a hard problem, or being proud of having shipped a product used by real customers. And I don't see either of these things on this survey.