Comment by nojvek

I resonated very strongly with the Theory of problems. At my last place I was very productive. Revamping their deploy system, frontend infra, had my hands in a lot of things.

However my pay wasn’t going up by much. I left for a new company and I feel like a noob having to re-learn things. It’s prolly going to take me an year to produce more value than I get paid.

Old company prolly had to replace me and spend 200k*2 years to get same context.

Very few companies understand the essence behind retaining good people. Promoting can be wayyy cheaper than having to hire someone new.

It really pisses me off when this happens to female and minority engineers. They frequently get looked down upon and left out for well deserved promos.

If you care about diversity, retain and grow your existing team. It’s cheaper and faster.