A good software engineer is good at communicating. You need to know what to build. You need to be able to communicate to varying levels of technical competence what work will involve and how things actually work. I haven't experienced the "value dropping" for myself or some friends I have made on various therapy courses. I find there is a harder "proving yourself" step when starting a job. I suspect that a bunch of that is my own pressure on myself. Being open about our problem and demonstrating how good we are for a role typically leads to good outcomes as far as I have seen. EDIT: The two main risks I see for people who stutter is - Being treated differently - I have been offered to skip out of calls or let someone step in to make my life easier. I have refused. Despite the struggle, talking is part of my job. I worry that such special treatment, while often coming from a good place, will hold me back as people will think I am not capable of something. Letting my stutter get the best of me - by this I mean not talking up, avoiding something, not making a call. This would make me perform badly and be unreliable. This is something I actively check myself on.