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The most recent entry being your own one-man shop that you’re president and CEO of.

Github accounts with recent “my first project” forks.

Gaps in employment.

Buzzwords.

Expert in too many things.

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Why would you treat gaps in employment as red-flag ? Do you expect everyone whom you are interviewing to be like you ?

When you say you consider the gaps in employment (of which 'one-man shop' is just a subset of) to be a 'red flag', is that in the common sense of 'immediate disqualification' or just 'something to follow up on'? I certainly think there are plenty of legitimate reasons to have gaps in one's employment record (including 'I felt like not working for six months').

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