Often people are following other "rising stars". In larger companies, as managers ascend to more significant roles, a set of trusted "loyalists" is very valuabl

Often people are following other "rising stars". In larger companies, as managers ascend to more significant roles, a set of trusted "loyalists" is very valuable as you move up. In those cases you can move as fast as the "rising star" and not deal with the massive chaos/uncertainty of switching jobs. Every new job is a sea of uncertainty: you don't know underlying power structures, and for techies, your technical ability is strongly constrained by the intricacies/NIH nature of build systems, frameworks used, libraries, and existing code bases.