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I up voted this, because this is my experience as a manager of small development groups. No matter how much I mentored, blocked, told people leave when they are

I up voted this, because this is my experience as a manager of small development groups. No matter how much I mentored, blocked, told people leave when they are stressed, or just plain worked to make my devs successful, in the end it was give me more (money, perks, whatever), or out the door they went. The lesson - there's no loyalty for doing well as a manager. It all comes down to money. Even if the environment and work are great, if there's more money elsewhere, you are on shaky ground.

scarface74 7y ago
Its not about being loyal to the manager. No matter how good you are, there is no such thing as the company being loyal. The company wants to extract as much value out of the employees as possible. Their ultimate goal is to please shareholders or investors. The company wouldn’t think twice about laying off employees, or not paying market rates if they can get away with it. Salary compression and inversion are real. A company is more than willling to pay market rates to get a new employee but barely give existing employees a cost of living raise. I judge my manager on how well he can push for compensation for me.