Comment by ilaksh

I feel like that is a ridiculous generalization.

It can be true to a certain extent in that you may have _some_ engineers who aren't very good sticking around in some organizations. But why would you think that is the case for most of them? You might have engineers deciding to stay because they have a family and think their job is fine.

Or maybe for organizations that have poor leadership or existing engineers, that is the case that the good engineers realize that and leave. But for really good organizations, they are extremely selective in terms of recruiting and compensate employees highly, with difficult but rewarding work, it might be the opposite -- people who weren't really cut out for it are quickly eliminated.

For me personally I eventually came to the conclusion that there was no perfect job, and my plan for personal growth is not to flit from job to job anymore trying to get higher salaries, but rather to save and work on side projects to hopefully eventually have my own business. So for that strategy it doesn't make sense to keep switching jobs.