When is short tenure a red flag?
Having short tenures (is 2 - 3 years short?) allowed me to be an IC for cool projects, to be CTO at a bootstrapped company, to be CTO of a VC backed company, to work on amazing projects around the world with interesting people, consult in big projects, to learn so many technologies and ways of doing things and on top of this to make so much money doing things I love, and have the autonomy to make my own life decisions.<p>This has happened while some people I know have been working on and maintaining the systems they got hired 15 years ago to build. Power to them. But they get paid like shit and I can’t really talk to them about the current technological landscape as they’ve been doing the same thing, in the same way without any disruptions. You’d expect them to be domain &#x2F; tech-vertical masters, but unfortunately when you’ve been sliding in comfort for a decade, there’s a chance you lost most of your edge.<p>In my experience, there’s two (relevant to the point) kind of devs; the comfortable ones that you can rely on to basically almost never leave - they might be interested in politics but usually it’s just skimming the surface for that little extra cash or that little promotion; and the ones that need constant simulation, that mostly play politics with themselves and are a flight risk.<p>Ultimately, as a hiring manager you must make a decision knowing that whatever you choose you leave something on the table.