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Originally Posted by fjtorres
There just aren't enough takers of their offers.
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In the Netherlands, the reason often is this: Everybody wants to be "The Manager". It's where every career path should lead according to many people, and it's the only thing that's often vehemently pursued. Often, it also earns you more, even if your level of education is lower than the people you manage, and your work may actually be easier.
Being the boss of a two-man IT department (including said boss) seems to earn you more status (and money) than being Dr. Janssen trying to finally complete that compiler that will make all new C++ programs 125% faster. The first will probably have "Manager" on his tag, and the second will have "Software Engineer". The first is having a career, the second just has a job.
Almost everybody, even the ones that start out as engineers, start going for the (assistant) team leader and (assistant) manager jobs as soon as possible.