Job Hopping Debate

If I am hiring for a intermediate to senior role, I would like to see at least 1 or 2 stints of 3+ years at a company because if you haven't spent enough time at one company/team, you haven't really come across problems and issues that may not appear with short stints. Job hopping when early on in your career is a good thing because it helps you get better pay and growth as well. But at some point, you cannot keep doing that otherwise you will not be trusted for any role that is i

Well, you might now want to give up yet. I remember, in the beginning of my career, i never lasted more than 1 or 2 years at a given company. Then one day, I found the right company and worked there for 6 years!LinkedIn Resumes are filled with software engineers who don't last longer than 12 months, just look at all your coworker's linkedIn profiles. It's not that uncommon.

When I started my career as a programmer it was a bad sign if people didn't stay 5 years at least at a company. But these days hardly anybody stays longer than 2 years unless they're being paid exceptionally well. So it's no longer a terrible sign if someone doesn't last more than 2 years. It can actually be a bad sign if you work at a big company for 10 years because you're probably out of date because you focused only on their tech stack .

It's completely reasonable to want potential employees who are likely to stay at your company for more than a year. If someone's entire experience is leaving places after less than a year, either they are bad employees who are fired or quit due to performance issues, or they never intend to stick around long anywhere.For some kinds of work, that's fine, but I think most companies of all kinds would prefer employees who will stay with them for at least a year.It's totall

Maybe try sticking around at a company longer than 2 years.

Only if there are a lot of 1 year stints. HR these days expects people to change jobs every 2-4 years.

Hi, Iwan Gulenko (https://linkedin.com/in/iwan-gulenko), tech recruiter from Switzerland here.In every culture it's different. In Switzerland, three stints of less than two years at companies is already a "Nogo".In your situation, I would throughly ask why the stints were so short; maybe there are good reasons like the companies went bankrupt without any fault of the app

Choose a job because you hunk you'll learn something from it (tech skills or soft skills.) Leave when you begin to stagnate. That doesn't mean leave as soon as you've got a handle on the hot new technology you applied because you wanted on your resume. Almost every company or code awe has something to teach you about process or architecture or politics or people or business or an industry. But there will also come a point where everything is rote and there are no longer any signif

I've always viewed staying at the same company for a very long time (10+ years) as a potential red flag. Your fastest growth comes from a new company or new position. And anecdotally, most of the more successful people I know have had an average job tenure of 2-4 years.

I am so fascinated at how my grandfather would spend decades at a company, my Dad would spend a decade, and now people decline jobs over the expectation that they stay 1 year. And I was in my first job 51 weeks.I don't think you are wrong in doing so as the market in tech moves fast while employers move like slugs, it is just such a shift from what I grew up to expect.