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by TWAndrews 4496 days ago
When you say you aren't learning, are you referring only to your development as a software engineer, or are you also referring to your skills as an employee?

Learning how to operate in a moderately large company is a skill, and requires you to understand how to assess the value of projects you're working on, how to make them more valuable, and how to find things which would be valuable that you can work on of your own volition.

In general, you'll be asked to demonstrate competence on risk-free projects before you're given the keys to bigger things. Demonstrate excellence on those and then ask for more challenging work.