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This can go wrong, as I found. Management and Tech leadership are focussed on the new projects with latest technology - they pay the biggest bucks for these and
by rr808 2y ago
This can go wrong, as I found. Management and Tech leadership are focussed on the new projects with latest technology - they pay the biggest bucks for these and no one really cares about the devs maintaining the old stuff - even if important. The second problem is looking for new roles you resume is filled with old tech rather than new stuff that is in demand.
- ljm 2y agoI’ve found it to be the opposite but it’s not really either/or. Over here in the UK, if I constantly chase the new hotness I will have plenty of new startups to choose from but I’ll almost always be low-balled on pay with some practically meaningless equity package. Gaining more in-depth experience opens up the better paying positions further up the ladder in more established companies. Don’t want to keep your head in the sand for years but at the same time, there are a lot of skills that can’t be learned if you stay exclusively at the bleeding edge.