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Not really. I try to not let it bother me because it's been this way most anywhere I've worked. I did once have a manager who was very good at this. I was surprised how positive it made me feel.

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Do you think being recognized made you stay in that role any longer? Or did it solely contribute to making it a more positive place to work?

I don't know the parent but people definitely stay longer when recognized, and even more important, they do a better job

I'd say it didn't make me stay longer. I never thought to myself "wow, they recognize the job I'm doing here so I'm going to stay". BUT, now that I think back on it, I spent 4 years on that one team, which is the longest I've spent on any team in my ~20 year career. There were lots of reasons I stayed though: friendly coworkers (with low turnover too), more autonomy than I've had at any other job (small team where I was only 1 of 3 backend engineers on an entire set of products), learned a ton (this was when cloud was just becoming big, and we migrated everything to Azure).

I've stayed as little as 6 months in a team before moving, but average has been around 1-3 years. I've stayed in companies longer (9 years, 4 years, been at my current place for 2 years), but have moved to different teams internally.

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