Re:Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no int...
by slg on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:10PM
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>"everything's fine; I like it here..." and then leave because "I'm ready for something new."
If we aren't taking people at face value I don't know why we should assume the second comment is the truth. "I'm ready for something new" sounds like the "It's not you, it's me" of reasons for leaving a company. It often doesn't benefit an employee to give a real reason they are leaving and many times those reasons have nothing to do with how their employer handled career progression.
For example, if a engineer works at a large company (i.e. one in which a single engineer or manager has no real power to push for organizational change) there is little reason to voice their opposition to the overall direction of the company during performance reviews. It also doesn't make sense for that person to burn bridges by unnecessarily criticizing that direction on the way out the door.
If we aren't taking people at face value I don't know why we should assume the second comment is the truth. "I'm ready for something new" sounds like the "It's not you, it's me" of reasons for leaving a company. It often doesn't benefit an employee to give a real reason they are leaving and many times those reasons have nothing to do with how their employer handled career progression.
For example, if a engineer works at a large company (i.e. one in which a single engineer or manager has no real power to push for organizational change) there is little reason to voice their opposition to the overall direction of the company during performance reviews. It also doesn't make sense for that person to burn bridges by unnecessarily criticizing that direction on the way out the door.