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I disagree. I think that you have to take ownership of your own career and advancement. Until you reach a level, where you can really take ownership within a company.

Employers these days will not raise your salary at market rate without you jumping from company to company.

For example, person A stays at one company for 5 years and person B jumps from company to company every 1 to 2 years. At the end of the 5 years, person B will be making a lot more than person A.

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What are you disagreeing with? The article explicitly makes the same point: "your job is not your job; your job is to find a better job".

// Edit: I'm assuming you were attempting to reply to a sibling comment but posted a comment on the article instead of a reply.

Whoops, yes. I was replying to someone off of my phone.

Depends on the employers. It would be really stupid not to keep the salaries up to date. It's been said over and over again, it's taught in business schools, hell you can even google a lucky "management tutorial" right now and it's written there. Management should know this, this is their job. If the employers are incompetent then, yes you should leave.

Having gone to business school, and having worked for well-known tech companies, I can assure you that there is approximately zero overlap between what you learn in Organizational Behavior class and what is practiced in real companies by imperfectly human managers.

It's not really productive to say "everyone is incompetent." It's more productive to figure out how to manage your own career in an imperfect world.

reminds me of a person I know. She will cross the street and never look. She almost got hit by a car one day. I stop her and tell her she needs to look before crossing. She says "I have the right-of-way, if they hit me it's their fault."

Yeah. I couldn't disagree. But I had to remind her that physics is the real law of the land. Doesn't matter much who is at fault, if you're dead.

Point being, academic theory never matches reality.

We don't disagree. My point is there are plenty of employers who will keep your salary up to date. Of course if they fail to do so, you should leave and move on to a higher salary. They are at fault, so they should take the loss and redo their hiring experiments all over again. Simple as that.

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