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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I’d go out of my way not to hire someone who has worked for shit companies like FAANG/MAANA.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

there absolutely is no loyalty from an organisation.

This is why I jump ship without any further thought or feeling of remorse. They would throw you out on your butt without a second's hesitation whenever they feel like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is something that is still better in Germany. Companies are forced to have somewhat of an employee loyalty and some corporation go well above what the law forces them to (like VW). The way things are going lately, it feels like this won't be like this forever. But atm it's still one of the good things about Germany.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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