I'm 22 and like 6 months into my first, I really love what I'm working on and what I'm being compensated for that. But whenever I ask anyone whats their plan is they say mostly switch within 1-2 years, especially freshets who were selected along with me, and surprisingly almost no one here is from pre-covid.
Check all the influencers and gurus out there. They stay for only around 2 years. Which makes sense to maximize your potential and income. Let's take the scenario, when you change job you might get a 30% hike. First 2-3 months you and the team working with you will work to onboard you. These folks always pick jobs where there is going to be new development or new tech. So the next six months go into learning and development. For enterprise customers with all customisation it will take 1 year for production usage. By the time they would be preparing for their next job and leaving the maintenance to other folks.
You can go checkout profiles on LinkedIn and see this pattern.
After say 8-10 years experience some folks have great breadth or depth. They get to lead large teams, they might not need to actively code but because of their pattern or learning they would be on top of new things and new organisational patterns which in turn helps them to acquire more skills for their next stint.
And these folks network a lot.
Hope you can learn from this and priorities what is important
Loyalty seldom exists in today's corporate world. On top of that we compare ourself constantly in terms pay and package when we see our peers getting huge hike on a switch we jump ship.
Depends on how much hike or learning you get
I think about seriously quitting my job atleast once every few months but I've stuck it out here for almost 3 years now.
I don't know if it's just me but the idea of putting myself out there and starting afresh at a new company is jus...
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How frequent should we be switching jobs?
As many a times we encounter situation where HR interrogate about multiple career advice. HOWEVER IT IS MANDATORY TO SWITCH JOB FOR FINANCIAL GROWTH.
I don't understand people who have been with one organisation for 10, 15, 20 years. I can't even think beyond 3 years and that's a stretch too.
To the People who have made / are making frequent job switches ( say each year or so ), What’s your salary progression and any issues you might think you run into in the future
If frequent job switch does matter then how frequent? Every 6 months is frequent or every 1 year is frequent?
What other criteria do you also see?