> Where it gets weird is when you see people on r/cscareerquestions or whatever advocating for a series of short tenure stints as a "hack" to get into high pay

> Where it gets weird is when you see people on r/cscareerquestions or whatever advocating for a series of short tenure stints as a "hack" to get into high pay positions quickly. The problem is that anyone that has success with this strategy is a living example of survivorship bias I also check /r/cscareerquestions from time to time. It has a strong "blind leading the blind" vibe lately, wherein inexperienced people are just echoing things back and forth to each other. A lot of the advice tends to be what people want to hear, not what actually mirrors reality. The hiring boom over the past few years has also severely skewed the results. A lot of the junior devs who recently entered the industry know nothing other than the crazy hiring boom times of 2020 to early 2022. They preach about how easy it is to find a job, but their only real data point was a single job search experience during a very anomalous time.