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> Why doesn’t your team train people?

It's not a matter of training, it's a matter of lack of rewards and mismatched incentives. The reward for good work is generally more work and a "token" raise at best that is never proportional with the value you added.

The market has converged on a baseline of what is typically expected out of a given role. Now sure, we can argue (and I personally agree) that said baseline has become absolutely terrible, but we shouldn't blame the people for that.

If your objective is to be an employee and engineering is purely a means to an end (to earn a salary as said employee), then delivering the baseline and getting the baseline salary is all you need to do. Any effort beyond that is a waste of time that can rather be spent on hobbies/family/etc because it will not be adequately rewarded.

It only makes sense to go beyond the baseline if you want to learn and have a plausible way to monetize that extra experience (outside of this current job). If you want to build your own product, do consulting, etc.



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