SoftServe hiring specialist Olga Yakymchuk published a post on LinkedIn discussing the topic of working for a long time at one company. This provoked a discussion among IT professionals with almost a hundred comments.
SoftServe hiring specialist Olga Yakymchuk published a post on LinkedIn discussing the topic of working for a long time at one company. This provoked a discussion among IT professionals with almost a hundred comments.
«We are used to the fact that frequent job changes cause distrust in employers. But what if, on the contrary, a candidate has been working in the same company for over 10 years?», — Yakymchuk wrote.
She pointed out that long-term cooperation with one company for more than 10 years is not always regarded by employers as a positive quality. There is concern that such specialists may not be adaptive enough, do not understand trends and demands of the labor market, and may not be able to generate fresh approaches and ideas. On the plus side, such employees are loyal and stable and have deep expertise.
«What do you think? Is this more of a red flag or a plus for the candidate’s karma?» asked a Senior Recruiter from SoftServe. The opinions of IT professionals were divided.
There is one solution. Simply jump around to different projects in the company (if there are any). And in this case, essentially and within the framework of a settled position, a person calmly progresses.
I’ve already collected red flags of both types in my career — I worked too long on some campaigns, not enough on others. I should probably start writing «on average.»
Red flag, this is when you start putting up red flags. What did you think of red flags, maybe it’s time for you to see a psychologist? to work through the traumas of «Red Flag».
You didn’t listen to the person, you don’t understand why and what exactly. There may be a lot of nuances, but you have a «Red Flag» in your brain… Currently, there are a lot of cool specialists who can do a lot of work, and do it very well. But they don’t really know how to pass modern interviews.
Modern interviews are not about the ability to work, but about the ability to pass them. And a person can learn new technologies, do cool things, but not be able to pass them, these Red Flags. And then HR regrets that they don’t have a good specialist.
In my opinion, if a person has been in the same position for 10 years, it is not a good indicator. But if they are in the same company, but are developing their career ladder, then it is great. Although personally, even if I work in a company and I like everything, I go for interviews about once a year purely in order to understand that I am competitive in the context of the market situation.
This is some kind of youth nonsense: I worked in the same company for 12 years, and it was normal, my mother worked in the same company for more than half of her life, rose from an ordinary cashier to the head of the region.
I believe that many companies simply invent their own «Red Flags» when selecting candidates.
Working for many years in the 1st company? There will be disadvantages! Changing companies for your own development? Again, they will consider this a disadvantage. Unfortunately, now in the IT market, employers are trying to be not employers, but psychologists who are looking for only negative traits in a candidate, so for me, Red Flag is just such a company)
If the candidate knows his job and does it profitably, then it doesn’t matter how many companies he has changed or how long he has been in the same company. And if the employer does not evaluate the candidate based on his professional abilities, then I’m sorry, but this employer most likely has many problems of his own!
Therefore, choose good companies and good employers)
For me, this is a big plus! Loyalty and stability are the key to productivity. A red flag is when you change three companies in two years.
I think it would be very strange for a company not to invite a person who has worked a lot in one place to an interview. For business, it doesn’t matter how long or where you worked. What matters is whether you can solve problems.
If a person hasn’t changed companies for at least 40 years in a row, but is well-versed in their field, plus knows how to present themselves and is a pleasure to work with, then what are the problems?
Recall that earlier, DOU forum user Anastasia started a discussion about whether an IT worker can be considered an unreliable employee and a «defector» if he changes jobs every 1–2 years.
dev.ua also asked hiring specialists how often IT professionals should change jobs, and whether recruiters distrust or suspect a candidate who has stayed in one place and position for too long.
