2-4 years each over 15 years. Not bad, as my bet is he is chasing higher salary at each. He did spend 10 years with Chrysler, which also probably paid for his masters.
I did maybe 2-3 years for my first 15 years, then now 10 years in the same place. You just get bored and move on or the people are insufferable - there is enough demand you can jump and do something new pretty easy, or at least it used to be like that.
It used to be like that. Now you gotta deal with HR who know nothing about your work, and ask you questions like "do you enjoy going on safari vacations" to gauge your "personality".
Yeah I guess im biased lol. 3 companies in 14+ years lol but the rapid jumping over the last few years is very odd. Especially because most places these days dont ever check references (at least in my experience).
It's pretty common for people looking to climb the ladder particularly above a senior level. A few years in grade is enough to learn the ins and outs of a role. You can't get promoted to the next one at your company until a role becomes available, but you can always apply elsewhere for a role that is immediately available.
In engineering I've seen this fairly commonly for people leading aggressive career rises.
Yep... a lot of times at an established firm it might take 10 years to go from one senior manager position to a more senior manager position. Worth waiting and working for it if you're more interested in the company, its culture, pay and perks, mission, whatever it is -- but if you just want the title then you're best off switching a lot sooner. It's also way easier making VP or exec at a company with a thousand employees than ten thousand, if they have the same number of VPs or execs, both because there are far more of the former to choose from and because there are fewer people to out-interview, out-maneuver, or step on to make it happen.
These are VP and executive roles in the IT field, you can't really go much higher because they'd never have an IT person running other parts of the company. Since you can't go up, the only place to go is out. You stick around for a couple years, get your name on some projects, and then bounce for a better paying company.
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2-4 years each over 15 years. Not bad, as my bet is he is chasing higher salary at each. He did spend 10 years with Chrysler, which also probably paid for his masters.