‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral::undefined

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    If you hop jobs, I’m not hiring you*. Yes I make those decisions. No I do not expect you to stay forever, but 1yr at a time I can barely get productivity out of you. Some of these people do 6 months. To everyone that knows, all that looks like is grifting your probationary period. Get hired, assigned tasks, fail spectacularly, get booted out or leave before they find out you’re incompetent.

    *Except one guy. He was a brilliant weirdo that job hopped because no other company would bend their policies to fit weirdo’s requirements about work and life. He was exceptionally brilliant, like dozens of patents under his name, and literally invented novel ways of doing things. He got a try. His weirdness evolved into even weirder, we let him do his thing and whatever because again, absolutely brilliant. And he’s still there and happy enough.

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      If you hop jobs, I’m not hiring you*

      That’s okay, someone will and for more than you’re offering

    • Holyginz@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      You saying you wouldn’t hire them doesn’t matter. They will get hired elsewhere. If people are leaving there after such a short time regularly, than that says more about the company culture. It means you aren’t good enough to retain employees.

    • riseuppikmin[he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      For anyone reading this who it scares off, by job hopping 3 times in my first 5 years of employment post-college I just under tripled my salary.

      Move early move often and keep interviewing while you have a job as it lets you be the pickiest in choosing where you’ll have to spend your working hours.

      Companies overwhelmingly have no loyalty to you whatsoever (how I wish I was in a co-op so this wouldn’t be so), so aggressively pit them against eachother regarding your labor.