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• Good compensation.
• Flexible working hours.
• A big company where any line of your code will serve millions of users across Southeast Asia.

• The senior leaders continue to announce new policies every year. The later ones are tougher than the earlier ones.
• Not every team or shareholder is talented.
• There are nationality and personal opinion biases in the promotion.
• There is no more hybrid or remote working.

Is there anything inherently wrong with software engineers remaining in the same role for more than five years?

The new policy requires G4 engineers to be promoted to G5 within five years, and we can all infer the consequences if they are not. However, promotion opportunities are limited, and the selection criteria are often unclear or inconsistently applied. Under these conditions, a lack of promotion should not be considered a valid justification for layoffs.