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by OmarIsmail 1570 days ago
The industry does not properly reward long tenure. If the person stays curious and hungry then the accumulated knowledge and experience they hold is worth a tremendous amount. Smart companies will start appreciating and compensating for this in the future.
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tooltower 1570 days ago
Management often likes treating software engineers as being replaceable, not accounting for the lost experience they now have to build up from scratch.

Or as one of my colleagues so aptly put it, "SWEs are not fungible."

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Foobar8568 1570 days ago
Because management believes that only the business or PM (as in project manager) are worth their salts and important.

For some reasons, PM are thought to have a great understanding of both functionals and technicals of a solution, while at best, the only good they are at is navigating the organization and shielding the team.

So in a word, management is most likely useless and PM even more, especially if the management believes that a PM can handle a few projects at a time for cost saving (!).

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tooltower 1570 days ago
Citations needed

I know you are venting, and even agreeing with me, but I wasn't trying to make this a SWE vs PM thing. The dynamic you describe hasn't been my experience, at least so far.

Wherever you work, I hope you find ways show the value of your work to your management chain too.

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