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> I'd be leery of joining a company with such high turnover. But how do you find out if turnover is high? Just ask, I suppose, but a manager is going to try to
by antidoh 14y ago
> I'd be leery of joining a company with such high turnover.
But how do you find out if turnover is high? Just ask, I suppose, but a manager is going to try to downplay it, since he's selling the company to you. Hit or miss whether workers will be truthful about it, between wanting to be team players and not telling tales out of school.
I'm leaving a place with high turnover now. I had no idea. Although I could have entertained some suspicion when my agency told me how much they love this place; churn is lucrative for some people.
- mtoddh 14y agoBut how do you find out if turnover is high? It would be interesting if you could measure this with LinkedIn - as in looking at the profiles of all developers who worked for company X and determine how long they stayed on average. Of course it would rely on people actively updating their profiles. But if you could it would be interesting to see how much high turnover at a company correlated with bad reviews for said company on sites like Glassdoor.
- potatolicious 14y ago> "Just ask, I suppose, but a manager is going to try to downplay it" And it will be fairly evident when he does. A place with low turnover would be one where the manager can confidently look you in the eye and declare he has low turnover. It is rare for hiring managers to be effective bald-faced liars (HR on the other hand suffers from no such weakness), so they will try to dodge the question instead. Dodgy hiring managers is pretty much the signal for "run for the hills".
- eru 14y agoDon't ask directly about turnover. Ask about average time people stay there. (Depending on your formulation of the question, you give them an opportunity to brag about how much they are growing and thus having new-ish people.)