Wow, this sounds like me except I am an old fart at 62yo. I have OMY syndrome and plan to pull the plug Q1 of 2020. Not really RE but, oh well.
I am a HW R&D electrical engineer at MegaCorp, specializing in analog design. 2 years ago the Agile approach, with daily scrums, was foisted upon us but ... it didn't take. : )
Over the years management has been pursuing different ways of micromanaging. The beauracracy and paperwork has become insane.
Most of it is generating CYA paperwork which never gets read. It has become mind numbing working there ... check your brain at the door when you arrive in the morning!
Still, I get paid well so, I rationalize it by telling myself that I am being paid very well for sitting in yet another useless meeting while the oxygen in the room is being depleted by the meeting organizer chirping away. LOL
The part I have a hard time with is that 90% of my work is adding nothing to improve the product or to make a difference to the customer. It's not about working on "fun stuff" to me. It's about working on stuff that makes a difference.
More and more, work is being outsourced and the job is becoming spec-management and email traffic cop work. My current project has the development team split up across continents. My team is on the USA east coast ... part of the team is on the west coast ... and the other part of the team is in Asia. It makes for ridiculous meeting schedules.
Answering basic issue questions used to take an hour and a walk down the hall. Now, it takes at 1-2 days, due to language barriers and time zones.
It sure looks good on paper, with a lower bottom-line development cost but, the inefficiencies are astounding. However, this doesn't show up in the cost sheet. If schedules are slipping, we just need to work harder and put in extra hours !!!!
A few years ago I looked into changing to a smaller high-tech company. Now, I think I'm "cooked" and all done with high tech and the corporate world in general.
Too many knuckleheads, mostly in management and at the high level. It's funny .... MegaCorp cannot tolerate knuckleheads at the worker-bee level. You have to be productive and accountable to too many people. Bad decision making is not tolerated.
The knuckleheads are either let go or they tend to move up the food chain to other positions in the organization where being a knucklehead is either an asset or has no bearing on their work.
In any case, at this point in my life and career I'd rather get a cabin in the woods, run a wood-stove shoppe, grow a long beard, and sit on my porch .... gnawing on turnips and swearing at passers-by! LOL
"Now where did I put my shotgun filled with rock salt???"