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Re: Do Not Change Your Job

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Unfortunately without switching often, it does not appear that one can maximize their total compensation, simply because companies will often reward new employees more than existing ones.

I'm surprised I see much more emphasize on money and almost nobody mentions working on something less trivial or using interesting technology. The latter could be simply different from what you are bored with by now (e.g. Flink after Spark, Scala after Java, streaming after batch processing). Especially taking into account that in large companies with the best compensation you typically end up in a silo in this respe…

It's a job. money for hours, nothing more.

Re: Do Not Change Your Job

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post #86

I see people claiming they were getting 300% raise while switching every 2 years . My question is - is it consistent even after 10 years of doing so? Or is it just first 2-3 times you see 300% raise and you don't know what will happen next time?

It can’t be consistent for 10 years because engineer compensation has only been ballooning for a little while. Ten years ago there was no way you were getting completely enormous raises by switching because it was 2012 and comp wasn’t bonkers.

We will see how it goes in the future, but I have a hard time believing that one can truly develop high level skills by switching annually.

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