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Software companies in the UK, and companies that employ devs as part of another business, are terrible at recognising the value that their staff represent. It's

Software companies in the UK, and companies that employ devs as part of another business, are terrible at recognising the value that their staff represent. It's pretty much universally true across the industry here that you can't really work your way up in a company - progression comes from job hopping and pretty much nothing else. You can do all the training, certifications, and learning you like but it won't substantially change your employers view of you. It's a bit of a daft situation really. Companies spend far too much on hiring that could be going on wages. My wages specifically. :)

itronitron 4y ago
That used to be the standard view of devs in the US as well, but has likely improved somewhat (hopefully) with the rise of Google, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc. This was brought home (pun intended?) to me back in 2015 when my wife and I were vetting realtors for the sale of our house. One of the realtors, actually an 'elderly' husband and wife, after being told (by me) that I was a software developer proceeded to share that they had retired from working in HR at a software company and went on with 'oh my, don't you know how crazy and entitled those ridiculous software developers are!' That wasn't their first misstep, and we went with a different realtor.