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>Have you considered that perhaps your personal perspective is not exactly representative of large swathes of the industry

Do most software engineering jobs not have good PM's? Asking since I started my first real software engineering job last year, it doesn't pay the best but the PM is great and very hands off. I wonder if that itself is worth holding onto the job a while.

>>robotn+(OP)
PM quality varies a lot and is hard to judge when interviewing for most IC roles. (As in, you often don't get to talk to those folks directly. You can ask probing questions of other folks, but feedback is a bit of a crapshoot.)

If you have management that you like working with, and the work is pretty good, yes, that in and of itself is a pretty good reason to stay for a while.