Re:Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?
by wheaties on Saturday October 13, 2018 @01:00PM
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Sorry but that's a very good way to hurt your career. The community is surprisingly small. As in, I swear it's less than 3 hops from me to most people who might cross my desk when recruiting. I can tell you we know who have done this and we shy away from them. They're a waste of time.
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I've been criticised because I was only at a job for 12 months. I've also been criticised for staying 3 years.
Apparently I'm a terrible employee who left too early and stayed too long. I'm so glad I'm no longer an employee - hiring is horribly broken.
Yep, I've been in a job for 11 months now that I knew was a bad fit by the end of the first week.
I figure I need to stay at least a year -- at least then I won't have to pay the singing bonus back.
Huh. I can't understand where you would be to have that happen - my job pool is about ten countries in Europe, a few in Africa and Asia, plus Australia. (Countries where you can expect programming jobs to allow for English-only speakers.)
Working on the same city?
Most people don't keep jumping between countries.
Even on a large city like Lisbon it is relatively easy to meet old time university friends or former colleges, because consulting companies have more or less the same costumers.
You really can't?
Re:Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?
by your-nanny on Sunday October 14, 2018 @09:10AM
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so you prefer the type of employee who is willingly exploited and doesn't show the same level of loyalty as they can reasonably expect the company to show them?