I may be unusual, but it doesn't take me 2-3 years to get a sense of how a company works. I won't know all the details, because no one can, but I can generally

I may be unusual, but it doesn't take me 2-3 years to get a sense of how a company works. I won't know all the details, because no one can, but I can generally figure out what the company values and who the players are (and whether I have a chance of joining them) pretty quickly. Taking 2 years to figure out whether an opportunity is worth pursuing isn't honorable; it's a way to get overinvested in what would otherwise be minuscule mistakes. If the game is worth playing, you have to execute and that takes time. That can take 2-5+ years. Whatever the vision is, it's going to take a lot of effort to put it together. But you can usually figure out when a game is not worth playing in a couple of months. I'm not saying that people should quit a job after a shitty week because even the best jobs have bad spells, but people shouldn't waste time because of a need to keep up a false appearance of loyalty. Again, it comes down to this: are you the chef's protege, or are you washing dishes?