Is the old advice to change companies every two-ish years still the best practice for career advancement?
Is the old advice to change companies every two-ish years still the best practice for career advancement?
I recall a regular piece of advice for software engineers: “change your job every two years.”
There’s innumerable Google results for this, even from as recently as 2022 — but none of them really seem that high-quality?
I’m really, really enjoying my current (somewhat unusual, hard-to-replicate) position; am about a year and a half into it; but I also don’t want to relax into that and have it cost me in the long-run, career advancement wise.
So, what’ve y’all been doing? Especially in the post-pandemic/fully-remote world, does that advice still apply?
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2 years seems insane to me. I wouldn't hire anyone who has a resume full of job hopping every other year.
What if it was a promotion every 2 years?
You still worked for the same company... programmers job trees aren't that deep. Either you got promoted out of programming or the promotion isn't worth mentioning.
This is pretty bad advice and I'm really surprised to see it in a community for "experienced devs".