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by Multicomp 1359 days ago
I wonder _why_ it is that 50% of the initial team has left within 3-5 years? Could it be that continuous rewrites and ever-shifting tech stacks is a symptom / the "pound of cure" to the problem created by companies not valuing employee retention & growth (ex: non-least-effort employee training, paying employees proper market adjustments...if HR has budget for a rando off the street to get paid market rates...why not your existing employees who you will lose anyways if you don't pro-actively adjust their pay, AKA the "ounce of prevention").

EDIT: if your company's addiction is to rewrite, like all addictions, it is serving a need. How can you lessen the cause of that need? One major way would be good (defined at present as likely 'industry leading') employee retention.

Just imagine what would happen if your house building projects changed all general contractors and most subcontractors every 2 weeks? It would be chaos and you would end up with an over-expensive pretzel. Why we think software programs are different is beyond me.