Statistics & Performance
Nowadays find a new job is much easier than before. That's why developers would like to leave the company after 1 or 2 years.
The situation is still the same in some sectors. in the technical dept. you don't even think that developers/programmers stay in a single company for 8 or 10 years.
In some cases, you can find out developers, who can join a company for the last 10 years. But most of the programmers leave the company in the 3 or 5 years.
Experience With Developers / Programmers
In most of the cases, I have found almost 70–80% of applicants left their jobs within two or three years. I rarely found any applicants who worked for more than five years in a company. There are very few applicants like 2 or 3 stay in last company since 5 years.
In the technical field, I have seen limited applicants because we are a startup. Developers who have worked in a company for a long time basically don’t join that company which is works for a startup.
Why Developers Wouldn't Like To Stay Longer In Office
- For Opportunity
This is one of the biggest reasons why developers would like to change their job after one and a half years. As a junior programmer or a developer, you need to learn a lot of things to become a successful developer.
As a new applicant of a company each of them are learning a lot of things from each other in the first year. The company learns from their previous experience, and the developer learns from their tech stack, projects, and senior developers.
After one year, a developer develops things and becomes one of the major employees of that company. But often, the developer doesn’t feel the same way.
So, after one year, there is nothing much left to learn for the developer from the company. If the company is a tech giant, then, of course, there will be. But in small and medium-sized companies, the learning opportunity becomes narrower. That's the reason why developers leave small companies after one or two years.
- For Better Career
Tech heaps are changing quicker than regular. That’s why learning is a never-ending process for developers. It’s one of the main reasons why programming is one of the different kinds of jobs in the world.
Programmers should change their jobs not only for learning but also to make better careers. Doing the job in one company makes career increase slower. Normally, a company doesn’t progress as fast as developers develop their skills. In this situation, the company can’t satisfy the developers’ requirements.
So even if you are faithful and dedicated, and even if you find many learning opportunities, you should leave if you feel you earn for a more satisfying career.