I have a 7 year gap on my resume where my mental health was in the toilet. I have two yrs experience since resuming.
Do people care? I have 2 yrs experience before the gap. Do I have 4 years experience or would most people only count the after? Trying to figure out where my TC should be is a pain. Especially as I work at a teeny startup as the first employee, i have no idea what % of share in the company I should consider reasonable.
Currently at 80 base and 1%
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The most important point is that YOE is largely all an arbitrary number for the purposes of job descriptions.
Before somebody replies with “WRONG” hear me out...
If you didn’t take the gap years, you would have 11 years of experience. Do people with 11 years of experience not count the early years because technology has changed so much? No, they count it because they likely still grew their skill set and soft skills during that time. Also, when you learn something once it’s much easier to brush up than it is to learn for the first time.
Luckily, jobs usually ask for 3+ or 5+ years of experience and you definitely don’t have 5 so I say go for the mid level position. Good luck!