Hi guys. I've been to the WeAreDevelopers 2022 World Congress (day 1 out of 2) and just got back to the hotel.

Let me recap:

- there were approximately 8.000 people

- ticket is 500 EUR approx. (+ travel cost for most)

- 9.15 was opening but i waited in line till 10.45

- technical difficulties: i received a QR code for checkin but that expired and i had to install the congress app otherwise they wouldn't let me in (i was told)

- ironically all of their congress apps and API crashed over and over again, it was bugged out, the feed repeated itself and so forth

- it was WAY TOO CROWDED, some workshops were for 20-40 people but again, when there are 8.000 people around, you can imagine

- there were 10 food trucks (and they accept cash only) for 8000 people

- "WE ARE HIRING" basically every company there

Some of my other personal impressions:

- i attended the "scaling with typescript" talk and: damn it was bad. the code wasn't clean at all and the speaker included some mistakes also; presentation was way too dark with dark text, basically unreadable on a projector. powerpoint 2005 skills be like

- all the "partners" and companies there weren't really about tech but "we are hiring"

- most of the other talks were about marketing, that's it

- there was maybe 1/3 code in the talks i attended and i choose wisely

What do you think? Have you been to the WeAreDevelopers World Congress this year? It was my first time and probably the last.