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Comment by knaekhoved | Hacker News Reader

Yeah honestly that seems like a pretty terrible sign. What happened there?

From this person's website, as a recruiter I would get the impression that they are smart but probably volatile/unreliable/???

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I see the opposite: Someone who can be confident enough in their skills that they don't have to worry about finding another job if they are unhappy with the current one.

Of course, many companies would prefer desperate employees who are afraid to hit the bricks instead. But is that really who you want to be working for, given a choice?

I see it as they’re great at interviewing but their personality is not compatible with the teams they are on, and when multiplied over a dozen role changes in less than a decade.. then I’m less inclined to believe it’s the “company that was the problem” and they should probably be more introspective

For me, most of the time when I left a job at low day counts, the job was not as advertised and actively harming my mental health.

I see. I can imagine that happening once or twice, but if it happens a lot, there are probably some behaviors you can change on your end to get a better idea of fit before jumping into the job. Either that, or the specificity of what you want would scare me as a potential employer. I wouldn't want to hire someone if there was an 80% chance they would decide the job was mentally unhealthy and leave within a few months.

2016 was a year full of confounding factors. I've been idly considering removing everything from that year from my resume entirely.

I personally found that part very comforting. Very few people generally talk about getting fired or quitting early, which created this sort of impression to me that everyone just had a model career and never ran into any roadblocks and that I would be under pressure to do the same.

Seeing that someone who is quite succesful and to me admirable got terminated multiple times was very reassuring there.

I haven't worked with Xe but I've been in a lot of overlapping communities. That might be the impression you have but it wasn't mine. There's a lot of legitimate things that can cause that in tech, with the paragraph that leads this page being one.

As much as I detest this mentality, it is indeed great at filtering out companies I'd never want to work at.

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