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> How Can Companies Improve Their Retention and Hiring? The answer to this question in the article -- make sure you've thought about what a technical career tr
by wwweston 5y ago
> How Can Companies Improve Their Retention and Hiring?
The answer to this question in the article -- make sure you've thought about what a technical career track that includes advancement is within your organization -- is part of the picture, especially at the senior level.
If you want advanced skills, be ready to advance people.
And that may even include preparing staff/extrasenior engineers to actually train juniors and even seniors in skills that you want rather than expecting skilled labor to show up preformed at your doorstep so you can externalize the cost of thinking through how your talent supply works (as attractive as that option will always remain... if one can get away with it).
- ehnto 5y agoAbsolutely. So many software companies are dead ends from a personal achievement level, and have zero mentorship. Moving company is the only way to progress your life in many cases. It's not always an easy problem to solve though, you need a domain and software platform challenging enough to have room for growth and advancement, without shooting yourself in the foot by making it too difficult to hire developers for. Some domains just aren't that challenging, and building simple and robust software is usually preferred to building over-engineered and challenging software. You may just genuinely have a boring software company that can't hold on to certain types of developers very well.