Jumping companies is the best way to get a raise, that's the truth for most places. Everything else is just more reasons to do so.
Usually that's because you don't actually need a good specialist for a long time. Maintenance could be done by juniors/mids.
Sorry, but no. Maintenance requires understanding the code, which requires reading the code. Experienced¹ eng are far more likely to be able to grind through code they didn't write, as they've read more code over the course of their career.
¹actually experienced, i.e., has actually gained knowledge. Not just "has been in the industry for more years" which seems to be frighteningly common.
That's true from eng perspective, yes, but try explaining it to an average manager who has a few seniors and a dozen mids/juns for the same cost as seniors.
He'll tell you magical "knowledge transfer" and won't think twice about making a raise for seniors and will proceed on hiring people to "transfer" the knowledge to.
interesting how a terminal nowadays needs a whole company with career options and venture funds backing, unless you're trying to make a bloated product out of it ofc
don't get me wrong, it looks great as it is right now, but i'm very sceptical about it's future
