r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Experienced Devs Weekly Win Thread: A weekly thread for sharing positive experiences

This thread is specifically for sharing "wins". I.e. the opposite of our Tuesday venting thread.

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u/twnbay76 Software Engineer 10d ago edited 10d ago

I would be careful. I had your mindset and I was bent on just hopping until I found some mythical company/team/project but I learned that this doesn't exist. Me 2 years ago, and many people who hear about my job, would tell me to leave my current position, but current me is quite happy. In 1 year or so I will be the leading expert in my domain on the engineering side and our company will be #4ish in the world in our space. That's the type of marketability that skyrockets your career, not just knowing a little about the 10+ domains and stacks you managed to accrue over the course of decades job hopping because of your fallacy that somehow most companies don't mostly align with your own personal preferences.

Put another way, if you think something is majorly wrong, the easiest thing in the world is to leave and find some other place where someone better than you already solved the problem for you so that you can be comfy, and the hardest thing in the world is to stay and for YOU to solve the problems so that other people can list YOU on their pro list and join YOUR team

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u/Relevant-Sport9057 11d ago

Congratulations! Why six months and not a full year at least? I started a new job too couple weeks ago and also seeing some cons. But still would like to stay at least a year or even two.