It varies a lot between hackers. Someone working in say the financial sector or in gaming is much more likely to want to move within that sector than say someo

It varies a lot between hackers. Someone working in say the financial sector or in gaming is much more likely to want to move within that sector than say someone working on web design where industry is secondary to technology. Also location has a big impact how some searches for a job, someone in SF or NY who has a wide range of options is more likely to be picky about multiple factors, while someone in a tech backwater is much more likely to care about company success (as losing your job is much more serious) but may also be willing to travel much further to work. There's also a lot of factors which relatively few developers care about (4 day work week, whether the company will allow you to work on open source projects in your own time) but the developers who care about them care a lot. I run a developer job board in the UK so I obviously spent a fair amount of time thinking about these things :) If you want to chat feel free to drop me an email, happy to share advice from my own experience.