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Staying at the same company for a long time usually makes you more valuable to that company without making you more valuable to other companies (sometimes making you less valuable if all you've ever used is the custom toolset at that one company instead of more popular tools)

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Absolutely true. Hard truth for some but tenure at a big company working in some internal framework is often next to useless at another company with a different tech stack (thinking in a custom C++ library framework instead of thinking in well known open source frameworks). Some skills carry over (especially soft skills that are so often under-invested in by engineers), but some just don't.

In a lot of cases companies don't seem to value the long tenure and move compensation inline with worth to them. The end result is a lot of people leave because companies don't value them and they have to move to maintain career and compensation progression.

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