[yaky]

I also spent almost a decade at my first out-of-college corporate job. Had a great team, slowly shifted from company-specific ERP and niche client-server software to web development. It was very comfortable for a long time.

I left after internal changes started demoting my team to support and maintenance, HIPPO and all that. I don't regret staying there for how long I did: I gained a width of non-company-specific experience to find other positions. And turns out, I left at the right time, too: company was involved in a political scandal and my former coworkers are now officially "application configuration specialists" instead of "developers".

[Cheezmeister]

> HIPPO, highest paid person's opinion. It is often a deciding factor in what decisions and next steps a team takes

TIL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippo_(disambiguation)#Other