I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I have never been in a job where there's a possibility of any kind of "progression". I don't even really understand what that means.
I think it's either change career or abandon ship. Change means becoming something like a manager, which is a role with a completely different skillset. Companies that "promote" people to management positions, for example, are usually going to end up with terrible management and unhappy employees.
Progression to me, I guess, means changing to something else that's roughly in the same category as development, such as UX design or technical writing. Something a developer can pick up a taste for during their regular hours. Before such a change could happen, though, they'd have to have the same sort of training as regular candidates.
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I have never been in a job where there's a possibility of any kind of "progression". I don't even really understand what that means.
I think it's either change career or abandon ship. Change means becoming something like a manager, which is a role with a completely different skillset. Companies that "promote" people to management positions, for example, are usually going to end up with terrible management and unhappy employees.
Progression to me, I guess, means changing to something else that's roughly in the same category as development, such as UX design or technical writing. Something a developer can pick up a taste for during their regular hours. Before such a change could happen, though, they'd have to have the same sort of training as regular candidates.