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0 pointsopportune4y ago0 comments

It probably depends on your market.

In areas where going from one company to another as a "senior" only ends up with like a 5k gross pay difference, it's almost negligible.

In Silicon Valley hopping companies can be like $100k/year or more gross pay difference. In a few years you might leverage that when switching companies again to get even more. Adds up fast.

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kamaal4y ago

>>In Silicon Valley hopping companies can be like $100k/year or more gross pay difference.

That has limits too. Its not like you can hop 20 companies in 10 years and end up making like $2+ million an year.

Eventually you will max out of levels to get promoted too. Then the only options are to startup on your own or be an exec at a large company.

Plus Im guessing any reasonable increase in your levels comes with fair degree of risks, workplace politics, up-or-out workplace policies and if you have a history of hopping 2 companies/year serious shops aren't going to hire you to only replace you 6 months from now.

vmception4y ago

Leave one or two stints off your resume and say you were having a sabbatical at burning man and never left the desert until the universe aligned you with that specific founder’s mission, problem solved

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