Re:Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
by burntoutfire on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:06PM
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There are jobs for architects out there.
Re:Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
by otikik on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:29AM
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Do you have kids?
Re:Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
by WYepQ4dNnG on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:18PM
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I do. I know it is impossible to getting prep for interviews when having kids. What I do is to leave my current job, give myself a month to prep, interview get a new job. So far it has worked fine with me.
I join a company, work hard the first year to get a promotion and do the fun stuff, after that, I relax and stick around to vest most of the stocks and leave around the 2nd/3rd year.
I have seen so called "architects" at big co that had been there for decades bringing absolutely no value to the table. And always asked myself why would the the company retain, promote and pay these guys big bucks. Nonsense.
I call them : the legacy guys.
The only thing I can think of is that the "legacy guys" retain the memory of all the legacy stuff, and the ability for them to maintain that piece of legacy/core/monolith piece of software that no one dares to touch.
I guess that's valuable for the company, but not certainly for the employee.
They stagnate exactly because by working on that legacy stuff they can rarely learn new tech, thus they wont be able to find a job at that level anywhere outside their current company.
They are stuck.