I see a lot of people saying to change companies. Maybe thats the only thing you can realistically do.
But I think this sort of situation is common at many, if not most, companies. It seems like it's trial and error to find a company that will treat you right. That varies by person and manager. I work for a company that is consistently one of Computer World's best places to work and all sorts of other awards. I see people join fresh out of college and become managers within 5 years. Yet I've been mistreated, passed over, put in bad situations, etc. I'm 10 years in and only a midlevel, eventhough they had me fill a senior role for a year and tech lead for a year.
I guess I'm saying you might as well try another company, but don't be surprised if it's the same or worse. Your other alternative is to give up like me, being frustrated all the time and making under $100k.
This is exactly what scares me, the company I'm now is not bad on paper, work/life balance is good, various colleagues are friendly, it's not a bad place to work... I believe I can find other companies with the same good key metrics, the problem is that I have no way to know if is a company where I can succeed and move to the position I aim to. In theory the company where I work now had everything to make me believe I could move to Lead, it feels like my unluckiness started when I moved to the project that looked promising, and my main error was not understanding that the rest of the developers don't like change ( I will explain this better, when the team was being created it looked like everyone wanted to join it, a new project, exciting challenges, non-repetitive work. The reality was the opposite, only few people joined just to promptly leave, and I believe it is because developers like to work on repetitive task: create the n-th new page, create new components, refactor something too look more new, etc... they don't really like the uncertainty of having to research every sprint how to complete their tasks )
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I see a lot of people saying to change companies. Maybe thats the only thing you can realistically do.
But I think this sort of situation is common at many, if not most, companies. It seems like it's trial and error to find a company that will treat you right. That varies by person and manager. I work for a company that is consistently one of Computer World's best places to work and all sorts of other awards. I see people join fresh out of college and become managers within 5 years. Yet I've been mistreated, passed over, put in bad situations, etc. I'm 10 years in and only a midlevel, eventhough they had me fill a senior role for a year and tech lead for a year.
I guess I'm saying you might as well try another company, but don't be surprised if it's the same or worse. Your other alternative is to give up like me, being frustrated all the time and making under $100k.
This is exactly what scares me, the company I'm now is not bad on paper, work/life balance is good, various colleagues are friendly, it's not a bad place to work... I believe I can find other companies with the same good key metrics, the problem is that I have no way to know if is a company where I can succeed and move to the position I aim to. In theory the company where I work now had everything to make me believe I could move to Lead, it feels like my unluckiness started when I moved to the project that looked promising, and my main error was not understanding that the rest of the developers don't like change ( I will explain this better, when the team was being created it looked like everyone wanted to join it, a new project, exciting challenges, non-repetitive work. The reality was the opposite, only few people joined just to promptly leave, and I believe it is because developers like to work on repetitive task: create the n-th new page, create new components, refactor something too look more new, etc... they don't really like the uncertainty of having to research every sprint how to complete their tasks )