How often is too often? When do you think it starts to become a problem and hinders your career more than helps it? Choose an option where a person would have made several hops consecutively in that period. Eg, if you choose 2 years, it means you think it hurts that person career when they have had 3 jobs and has quit all 3 at the 2 year mark.
It depends. If you’ve also had jobs for longer then it doesn’t look as bad if you leave some after a shorter period.
This. I think demonstrating that "you have the capacity to stick around" is what people are going to be looking for in your late career.
That’s why I specifically asked for consistently leaving at the same intervals. People usually say it’s fine to do short periods if it’s offset by longer stays. I wanted to see what people think when you consistently leave at the same intervals.
I agree that it depends. Companies that invest a lot in you, like with high TC and sign on bonuses, expect to get their money's worth. Quitting one after a year is fine, but do it again and similar companies won't want to hire you. Personally I would stay at least 4 years at companies like that. Here's a real example. I've seen co-workers leave Microsoft and do a year at Google then go to Facebook. That's fine... once. But if they only stayed a year at Facebook then I think it would be hard to get hired at a similar company. Recruiters frown on people who just want to build their resume and collect a signing bonus. If you want to hop around to build your resume then consider contract or consulting work. Nobody blinks an eye if you switch those types of jobs every 6 months. I did that for 3 years. That gave me the experience to get hired at Microsoft.
Honestly, I don’t think it’s that bad to be an extreme job hopper. As long as you are putting in great work
They don’t call it the 4 year cliff for no reason.
They don’t call it a 4 year cliff, they call it the one year cliff?
In my experience, the big companies don't especially care if you hop around at startups (even with <1 year stints) early in your career
If I saw someone never worked longer than two years at any job I'd be reluctant to hire them because I would think even if I provide them with good opportunity they will just jump ship on me too. No thanks. If I saw that at least once they stayed 4+ years somewhere but recently jumped around a couple times faster I would think they are just searching for the team and take a chance that if I create a good environment they won't just jump ship for no reason.
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I saw a comment once about following the Fibonacci series, and I generally agreed with it. Early career job hopping is completely reasonable and very much in your interest, but you're going to have to put in your 5 year stint somewhere by the age of 30-35 (I'm at 2yoe though, so maybe I'm misinformed)
Haha sounds like a great plan
After you've put in that 5 year stint, it's okay to do a tad of job hopping again because you can just say "it wasn't a good fit". I'd imagine something like 1.5, 1.5, 5-7, 1.5 looks pretty solid