Comment by musicale
4 years ago
> Retaining talent is even more important than you might think. It’s crazy that in an industry where the main value is tied up so much to individual contributors, people change jobs every two years
For most companies I'm familiar with, switching jobs (usually to a different company) is the most effective (and often the only) path to achieving a significant raise or promotion without moving into management.
Where does everyone get the impression that you can just move into management? It's certainly not the case in circles I move in. In 15 years I've not seen a single promotion into management. That's in London.
I think London England has a class structure that discourages this. In North America the push to team leader happens quite often and middle management common. The glass ceiling is usually cto/ceo/coo.
In the States, it’s not “just move into management,” but an expectation from management that their positions are “above” those who aren’t management, and once an employee maxes out salary at their skill (because we certainly won’t pay the peons more than management...) they only promotion is management. So go take some classes and work your way up that corporate ladder...
This is the opinion of management in England too. Except here there is no way to break into management without going back to school and even then it won't be easy to shake the "developer" image. I'm currently doing a startup, not because I want to do startups, but because I need to get out of development for the sake of my mental health and starting your own company is the only available avenue I have for achieving the transition.