That is interesting. My personal experience as a software engineer has been getting reimbursed for one or more conferences per year at every job. I've never h

That is interesting. My personal experience as a software engineer has been getting reimbursed for one or more conferences per year at every job. I've never had a software engineering manager say no to a relevant conference requested framed in a way that benefits the business. I wonder if there's an aggregate data source available to see how common / uncommon this is. Have your companies offered a general professional development budget?