Re:Ask HN: Leave job right before app goes to production?
by user5994461 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:26PM
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I bet you would get wayyyy faster and higher promotions by leaving the company rather than staying.
The world is full of people waiting, hopefully, for their 10% yearly raise, repeated over many years. They'll only realize after 5 years that they could have done the same progression by changing company after 2 years.
>>> If I had to hazard a guess I think this is probably because a more junior engineer working their ass off can show quick and obvious improvements to the quality of your work and time management skills, which start off as near excrement and iterate to "ok" over time.
Lemme tell you how it usually goes. The people at your company around you probably:
1) wont notice your improvements (determining good is hard and they ll forever remember you as the junior who just joined)
2) have zero management support (depends on politics
3) have the organization turned against you (typical raise blocked at X% per year top and only once a year).
If one wants to get his progression noticed, one should go interview at other places and tell his achievements in front of interviewers who wants to listen to just that ;)
The world is full of people waiting, hopefully, for their 10% yearly raise, repeated over many years. They'll only realize after 5 years that they could have done the same progression by changing company after 2 years.
>>> If I had to hazard a guess I think this is probably because a more junior engineer working their ass off can show quick and obvious improvements to the quality of your work and time management skills, which start off as near excrement and iterate to "ok" over time.
Lemme tell you how it usually goes. The people at your company around you probably:
1) wont notice your improvements (determining good is hard and they ll forever remember you as the junior who just joined)
2) have zero management support (depends on politics
3) have the organization turned against you (typical raise blocked at X% per year top and only once a year).
If one wants to get his progression noticed, one should go interview at other places and tell his achievements in front of interviewers who wants to listen to just that ;)
An early stage career is handled by moving early and often, to the next opportunities: https://thehftguy.com/2017/01/23/career-advice-and-salary-ne...