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luckylionyesterday at 9:41 PM1 replyview on HN

> Everyone seeks career growth, but pushing for it too quickly often just leads to inflated titles without real substance.

That's why I'm not a big fan of recommending people to often and quickly change jobs to increase titles and pay. Their skills don't level up the same way, and they end up with a title of senior/lead developer and can't actually build maintainable systems or solve problems that nobody tells them the solution to.


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whstlyesterday at 11:28 PM

Agree.

If one is unable to work alone but manages to join a new company with an inflated title, people will notice. They're gonna have to keep job-hopping until they find a place that doesn't notice the bad performance anymore.

This is demonstrable by the amount of CVs with "12 jobs in the last 6 years" in my reject pile.