Developer Retention

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. The ability of an organization to keep developers engaged and employed over time instead of losing them to burnout, frustration, or better opportunities. In culture discussions, developer retention is usually downstream of management quality, growth, and engineering environment.

    In plain English: Keeping developers from leaving over time.

    Example: "They worried about developer retention after a year of chronic deadline pressure and almost no visible progress on tooling pain."

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