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‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral (www.geekwire.com)
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‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral::undefined

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I don't know man, I've always liked the idea of a project outliving me. Though for the sanity of future engineers I hope that is not the case. Today's solutions are usually just tomorrow's problems.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago*

    On a long enough timeline, all things end, and tech has hyper accelerated timelines.

    I was once interviewed by a guy who asked for my biggest failure, which was basically "favorite open source project didn't work out". He let me know he worked on an early competitor of the X windowing system and really believed in it. And we laughed about that. (He hired me).

    So yeah, I kinda agree with this job hopper guy on everything but legacy, but only because we really don't get to have a say on what our code ends up meaning to anyone. The sands of time are nothing compared to the brutality of tech stack churn.

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