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Re:Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? by x86_64Ubuntu on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:07PM (#28052880)
>...I can't help but stop caring about the job I'm doing when it's only real utility to me is that I don't have to put in any effort to keep having it.

Yikes! That's my current situation in a nutshell. My biggest concern is that I don't want to risk jumping ship and landing at a toxic company/team, or landing in a bad work culture.

Don't get me wrong, I've got a nice vision about what I want to do where I am, but I can't get the money to carry it out, so I'm in that "no to low effort" stage.

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Re:Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? by Nursie on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:21PM (#28053011)
If you land somewhere toxic, you can always move again.

In my experience there’s almost always something toxic about a workplace, it’s finding one you can live with for a few months or years that’s the trick.

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Re:Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? by hn_go_brrrrr on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:47AM (#28057396)
It's all relative. I left an absolute clusterfuck of an engineering org (leads would scream at each other in meetings when things went wrong) a few years back. I landed somewhere much better, but now find myself complaining about much less severe problems.
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