>Nowadays it's "let people's salaries and career growth stagnate if they choose to stay internal", yet complain when they jump ship to another company that's wi

>Nowadays it's "let people's salaries and career growth stagnate if they choose to stay internal", yet complain when they jump ship to another company that's willing to pay more. And at the same time contribute to the problem by being very willing to hire external candidates at multiples of people from inside, while putting up unreasonable bars for promotion from within. such cross-pollination improves overall state of the industry (in particular it optimizes for efficient use of programmers time - burning that time on low productive unnecessary tasks can be done only by either very rich companies or by companies who hire cheap barrel bottom) and results in development of better technical talent at higher wages. As direct participants and beneficiaries we should celebrate it. Just look at the alternative like say lawyers - you have to suck up to your higher-ups for many years before getting any way ahead.