[sethetter]

I'm curious how big of a factor a consistent core team is to having long-term sustainable and stable software. When companies have people rotating on projects constantly and the original vision and design principles of the product are lost or changed, I can only imagine that contributes to the problem.

[phendrenad2]

I think that's a big factor. This is what RSUs and bonuses are supposed to solve: You entice employees to stay rather than job hop. However, companies have gotten too greedy and RSUs amount to a pittance, a vestigial perfunctory play act mimicking a bygone era.

[Gigachad]

The developers have also gotten too greedy and most of them will job hop every year for the maximum income.

[rjbwork]

Sounds like if they can job hop every year for maximum income, then the companies they work for are being greedy by underpaying them.

[Gigachad]

Everyone is greedy, that's how markets work. Every employee is trying to maximize their income and every employer is trying to minimize their expenses. But somehow one of these is seen as "greed" while the other is not.

As a software developer I get paid far above most workers and my job is easier than most other jobs. And yet I could still switch jobs frequently to squeeze out even more money.

[amenghra]

It's common for tech companies to give RSUs which vest over 4 years with annual refreshers being comparatively quite small. The financial incentives can dwindle after just 4-6 years at a given job.

[regularfry]

The gotcha to that, of course, is that while you're enticing people to stay in the company, you're doing nothing necessarily to keep them on a single project within that company.