Re:Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planne...
by ebiester on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:49PM
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Hiring manager here.
Knowledge has a half life. If you have taken 6 months off, and have an interesting story, this is not a big deal. (For example, I took 8 months off to live in Istanbul. I had two interviews and two offers when coming back, one of which was completely outside my network.)
However, I had also just taken a month to do a functional course, and had worked half-heartedly on a startup that went nowhere. I had a story.
The longer you take off, the more of a story you will need, even if that's "in the last 3 months, I built a small toy to get myself reacquainted with React and Python" even if this is a Rails omakase shop.
Or, that story may be something completely different. All I care about is "can you hit the ground running?"
Knowledge has a half life. If you have taken 6 months off, and have an interesting story, this is not a big deal. (For example, I took 8 months off to live in Istanbul. I had two interviews and two offers when coming back, one of which was completely outside my network.)
However, I had also just taken a month to do a functional course, and had worked half-heartedly on a startup that went nowhere. I had a story.
The longer you take off, the more of a story you will need, even if that's "in the last 3 months, I built a small toy to get myself reacquainted with React and Python" even if this is a Rails omakase shop.
Or, that story may be something completely different. All I care about is "can you hit the ground running?"