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I've realized an issue with job hoping in my own career with how I approach engineering design.
I had 2 jobs where I stayed for less than 2 years. This bias may not apply to everyone but I realize it in myself so it may help other people see it in themselves too
I had 2 jobs where I stayed for less than 2 years. This bias may not apply to everyone but I realize it in myself so it may help other people see it in themselves too
If you don't stay at a company long enough you don't have the ghosts of past trade-offs haunt you.
If you've stayed in the same team/position you'll eventually have to fix your design in production. This is very humbling.
If you've stayed in the same team/position you'll eventually have to fix your design in production. This is very humbling.
If you've stayed at the same company you'll have past teams ping you occasionally to ask about undocumented code or unexpected behavior. This helps you write better docs/tests/comments for future developers
For the jobs that I left before being there 2 years I have no idea if the trade-offs we were making were the correct ones. I have no idea what important things we left undocumented. I don't know what unexpected thing broke or were hard to change.
Not knowing those things gives me a lot of [false] confidence in my abilities. Everything worked great while I was there so it must be great forever.
Obviously that's the wrong conclusion, but I have no way to learn from the long term mistakes.
Obviously that's the wrong conclusion, but I have no way to learn from the long term mistakes.
