Is the old advice to change companies every two-ish years still the best practice for career advancement? - eviltoast

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?

  • drdnl@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Feel like you only received half of, possible good, advice:

    I used ‘two years, up or out’, in my career. Who cares if you work somewhere for a longer period of time as long you keep progressing in all the various metrics of career progression?

    It’s when things become stale that out is a good idea