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Interviewing SWEs, hiring managers, etc. Apparently long tenures denote being an expert beginner, 1 year of experience repeated 5 times instead of 5 years of e
by decafninja 5y ago
Interviewing SWEs, hiring managers, etc.
Apparently long tenures denote being an expert beginner, 1 year of experience repeated 5 times instead of 5 years of experience, complacency, laziness, things like that.
Again, I don't agree with this personally, but this seems to be the prevailing attitude. People like you and I being a minority.
There seem to be exceptions - the chief one being if you stuck around at a top company versus a mediocre one, that doesn't ding you much.
- aix1 5y agoI work at one such "top company". Internal mobility is very, very easy and well-supported by the company (great business choice IMO). I am not sure if would even make sense to talk about "sticking around" at the company level. One can easily choose between 1x5yrs of experience, 5x1yr or anywhere in between. (This is obviously orthogonal to your point about perceptions and attitudes, but I felt compelled to chime in.)
- jonas21 5y agoIsn't this just another way of saying that working for a mediocre company isn't a negative signal unless you stay there a long time?