Ask HN: Is high turnover a valid reason to start looking around?
I have a job at a medium-sized technology company with offices in a few major Australian cities.
Recently we suffered from very high turnover, many developers left over the last 1.5 years and the new hires obviously needed time before they could become productive again, this resulted in a slowdown and in some cases axing of new projects. This is still happening, two developers left just over the last quarter.
I never questioned the health of the company before, on paper they have many long-term projects and they are not losing money (it's an ASX listed company so the info is publicly available).
Do you think high turnover in itself is a sufficient reason to start thinking about moving?
Edit: one more question for other Aussie developers, how is the market right now for back-end web developers? I do mostly Python, PHP and Ruby. I'm not an Australian citizen but I'm a permanent resident so no visa issues.
Recently we suffered from very high turnover, many developers left over the last 1.5 years and the new hires obviously needed time before they could become productive again, this resulted in a slowdown and in some cases axing of new projects. This is still happening, two developers left just over the last quarter.
I never questioned the health of the company before, on paper they have many long-term projects and they are not losing money (it's an ASX listed company so the info is publicly available).
Do you think high turnover in itself is a sufficient reason to start thinking about moving?
Edit: one more question for other Aussie developers, how is the market right now for back-end web developers? I do mostly Python, PHP and Ruby. I'm not an Australian citizen but I'm a permanent resident so no visa issues.