I think you're both correct so to speak :) If someone has 20 years of overall experience and only ever stayed at a company for one year, I will default to an o

I think you're both correct so to speak :) If someone has 20 years of overall experience and only ever stayed at a company for one year, I will default to an orange flag and will have to ask lots of questions about that. If someone has 20 years of experience and has only ever worked at one company, I will default to an orange flag and will have to ask lots of questions about it. All of what you guys say can be true but doesn't have to be. The guy with only ~1 year tenures might have found awesome 20-50% salary increases by hopping around and made financially smart decisions to be able to have time work for him (compounding). He may also just be the dumb kid that's really not good at this and left a week before he would have been fired anyway each time. He switched to contracting at the end because "it raises less flags" The guy with 20 years at one company might have only gotten promoted because he's at a company where long tenure gets you promoted but doesn't know much. A perpetual junior with 20 years of "experience". Or he lucked into an awesome company with a good internal promotion culture and long tenures overall, which also results in less opportunities to get promoted (you need someone to move on/away so that a spot frees up so to speak), got promoted every 3-4 years and is now at the end of what he can get to at that company and made the decision to leave.