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> 4 years is pretty much a unicorn nowadays. I've been at my company for >= + years, but I can tell you that 4 years is not necessarily a good thing. Sometime
by segmondy 10y ago
> 4 years is pretty much a unicorn nowadays.
I've been at my company for >= + years, but I can tell you that 4 years is not necessarily a good thing. Sometimes people that stay for a long time are people who are no good and know it, they have found a safe environment that tolerates their incompetence so they never leave! I say this as someone who has interviewed people with 10+ yrs experience and who have stayed at once location for a long time. Most of them had no idea what is currently going on in the industry, heck, they didn't even have the fundamentals down or claim to have forgotten it all. I rather get a solid programmer for 1 year than an incompetent one for 5.
- louthy 10y agoThat's unlikely (but not impossible) to be true for founders. Anything that's going 5+ years has some semblance of quality behind it.
- flukus 10y agoNot in the enterprise world, a lot of terrible stuff lumbers along because of the huge gap between software users and software purchasers.
- MyNameIsFred 10y agoSometimes its just funding decisions made years in advance and "we've already spent too much on this to not to put up with it".