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In my previous science career in academia someone would think you are insane and throw your resume in the trash if you kept working double digit days before qui

In my previous science career in academia someone would think you are insane and throw your resume in the trash if you kept working double digit days before quitting, being terminated, etc. Tech is weird.

knaekhoved 4y ago
Yeah honestly that seems like a pretty terrible sign. What happened there? From this person's website, as a recruiter I would get the impression that they are smart but probably volatile/unreliable/???
- xena 4y ago
  For me, most of the time when I left a job at low day counts, the job was not as advertised and actively harming my mental health.
  - knaekhoved 4y ago
    I see. I can imagine that happening once or twice, but if it happens a lot, there are probably some behaviors you can change on your end to get a better idea of fit before jumping into the job. Either that, or the specificity of what you want would scare me as a potential employer. I wouldn't want to hire someone if there was an 80% chance they would decide the job was mentally unhealthy and leave within a few months.
    - xena 4y ago
      2016 was a year full of confounding factors. I've been idly considering removing everything from that year from my resume entirely.
      - ATsch 4y ago
        I personally found that part very comforting. Very few people generally talk about getting fired or quitting early, which created this sort of impression to me that everyone just had a model career and never ran into any roadblocks and that I would be under pressure to do the same. Seeing that someone who is quite succesful and to me admirable got terminated multiple times was very reassuring there.
- kevinmgranger 4y ago
  As much as I detest this mentality, it is indeed great at filtering out companies I'd never want to work at.
- ATsch 4y ago
  I see the opposite: Someone who can be confident enough in their skills that they don't have to worry about finding another job if they are unhappy with the current one. Of course, many companies would prefer desperate employees who are afraid to hit the bricks instead. But is that really who you want to be working for, given a choice?
  - throwoutway 4y ago
    I see it as they’re great at interviewing but their personality is not compatible with the teams they are on, and when multiplied over a dozen role changes in less than a decade.. then I’m less inclined to believe it’s the “company that was the problem” and they should probably be more introspective
- kodah 4y ago
  I haven't worked with Xe but I've been in a lot of overlapping communities. That might be the impression you have but it wasn't mine. There's a lot of legitimate things that can cause that in tech, with the paragraph that leads this page being one.
rsyring 4y ago
There are still people in tech who think this and would do the same. Maybe even a lot of them? But, the demand is so high compared to apply, it apparently hasn't kept the author from finding work.
makeitdouble 4y ago
You discover a lot when entering the job. It might be more true in tech than other jobs; god can the shock be awful, even after hours and hours of interviewing and asking questions. Someone quitting within weeks usually has a discussion with HR the first few days and stay there only long enough to hire someone else. That's I think a sign that the person has decent communication and just wont let you down at a random time because they're too pissed to do their job anymore. In this specific case, looking at the short job spree and the much longer tenure coming afterwards, I would not see it as a "throw the resume in the trash" kind of issue. Perhaps just bad interviewing skill (couldn't properly judge the company) and bad luck.
- thrown_22 4y ago
  > You discover a lot when entering the job. It might be more true in tech than other jobs; god can the shock be awful, even after hours and hours of interviewing and asking questions. The worst job I ever had was to be an excel administrator. They had business critical spread sheets which only ran against certain version of excel and windows. A great way to learn the ins and outs of virtualization two years out of university. A sad day for humanity overall though. The job was sold as cloud native DevOps.
urthor 4y ago
This. I am all for salary data to defeat discrimination. What the OP is doing isn't salary data. It's a blog of their life story. And it reflects terribly on them. Do not do what OP has done. Submit your salary data to an anonymized public platform if needs be.

knaekhoved 4y ago

Yeah honestly that seems like a pretty terrible sign. What happened there? From this person's website, as a recruiter I would get the impression that they are smart but probably volatile/unreliable/???

xena 4y ago
For me, most of the time when I left a job at low day counts, the job was not as advertised and actively harming my mental health.
- knaekhoved 4y ago
  I see. I can imagine that happening once or twice, but if it happens a lot, there are probably some behaviors you can change on your end to get a better idea of fit before jumping into the job. Either that, or the specificity of what you want would scare me as a potential employer. I wouldn't want to hire someone if there was an 80% chance they would decide the job was mentally unhealthy and leave within a few months.
  - xena 4y ago
    2016 was a year full of confounding factors. I've been idly considering removing everything from that year from my resume entirely.
    - ATsch 4y ago
      I personally found that part very comforting. Very few people generally talk about getting fired or quitting early, which created this sort of impression to me that everyone just had a model career and never ran into any roadblocks and that I would be under pressure to do the same. Seeing that someone who is quite succesful and to me admirable got terminated multiple times was very reassuring there.
kevinmgranger 4y ago
As much as I detest this mentality, it is indeed great at filtering out companies I'd never want to work at.
ATsch 4y ago
I see the opposite: Someone who can be confident enough in their skills that they don't have to worry about finding another job if they are unhappy with the current one. Of course, many companies would prefer desperate employees who are afraid to hit the bricks instead. But is that really who you want to be working for, given a choice?
- throwoutway 4y ago
  I see it as they’re great at interviewing but their personality is not compatible with the teams they are on, and when multiplied over a dozen role changes in less than a decade.. then I’m less inclined to believe it’s the “company that was the problem” and they should probably be more introspective
kodah 4y ago
I haven't worked with Xe but I've been in a lot of overlapping communities. That might be the impression you have but it wasn't mine. There's a lot of legitimate things that can cause that in tech, with the paragraph that leads this page being one.

rsyring 4y ago

There are still people in tech who think this and would do the same. Maybe even a lot of them? But, the demand is so high compared to apply, it apparently hasn't kept the author from finding work.

makeitdouble 4y ago

You discover a lot when entering the job. It might be more true in tech than other jobs; god can the shock be awful, even after hours and hours of interviewing and asking questions. Someone quitting within weeks usually has a discussion with HR the first few days and stay there only long enough to hire someone else. That's I think a sign that the person has decent communication and just wont let you down at a random time because they're too pissed to do their job anymore. In this specific case, looking at the short job spree and the much longer tenure coming afterwards, I would not see it as a "throw the resume in the trash" kind of issue. Perhaps just bad interviewing skill (couldn't properly judge the company) and bad luck.

thrown_22 4y ago
> You discover a lot when entering the job. It might be more true in tech than other jobs; god can the shock be awful, even after hours and hours of interviewing and asking questions. The worst job I ever had was to be an excel administrator. They had business critical spread sheets which only ran against certain version of excel and windows. A great way to learn the ins and outs of virtualization two years out of university. A sad day for humanity overall though. The job was sold as cloud native DevOps.

urthor 4y ago

This. I am all for salary data to defeat discrimination. What the OP is doing isn't salary data. It's a blog of their life story. And it reflects terribly on them. Do not do what OP has done. Submit your salary data to an anonymized public platform if needs be.