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After a few years at one company, most of the colleagues that take their dev education seriously have left. We had a mini community keeping ourselves up to speed as technology progresses. As time passed, I've noticed that I'm stagnating which is one of the biggest signs, for me, that I should move somewhere.

I'm now at a new company, working on a project that is in a much worse place than any of the project I've worked on previously.

I've done my due diligence and checked the company before joining, of course. And I've asked all the questions I wanted to know so I can know with some level of certainty whether we're the right fit. Sadly, that definitely didn't turn out to be true.

I'm currently working on tasks that any intern/junior can work on, while being paid a senior salary. There are a lot of areas in the project where I can spend my time more efficiently, e.g. stability, performance. But, it turns out that swapping colors, brushing some css here and there is more important to the client than fixing very, very unstable project.

And I'm not the share holder. It's not up to me to decide. The only thing I can comment with certainty is, why just not hire 2 juniors that can do the same work I do right now, instead of wasting my time/energy on meaningless tasks and such boring issues that I've left behind years ago. I've emphasized that being challenged is very important to me, and I'm given breadcrumbs to deal with.

And I'm unsure what to do now. I don't want to be that guy leaving just a few months after joining. Should I wait it out? I already mentioned that I don't think I'm properly utilized to lead dev and PM. I guess I should give them a month or two to see whether something will change?

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    @CoffeeNcode took me a while to answer, I was on holiday and I didn't want to start that topic before I get back.

    Apparently "that's what they planned for me" and didn't really give me any room to negotiate. So, yeah, have to start looking for a new job again. 🙄

    Waste of company's and my time. I was completely upfront that I left my previous job because I was bored dealing with that level of problems and felt I was stagnating. In here, there's just so much technical debt that they're actually wasting money on every. single. day. but are just turning a blind eye on it. I just don't get it. If they charged by the hour, then sure, client's paying for that, but they have fixed prices for their "packages". Wtf
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