Ask HN: What do future employers look down upon?
> Is taking a PHP (laraval, php7) job going to be looked down upon by future employers? Suppose you have side-project work in other, trendy languages/frameworks too. The PHP job is NOT Wordpress related. (Seems like PHP, perhaps deservedly so due to x, y, z..., has a bad reputation)
But I suppose it would make sense to ask a more general question.
> In general, what do future employers look down upon when hiring someone? What are some red flags* that would stand out?
A few I can think of (which may or may not be red flags depending on who you ask, highly subjective): - No knowledge of TechX and TrendyTechY - Short stints at many jobs (less than a year each)
*: For simplicity and reducing the scope, let's ignore obvious red flags like: no VCS knowledge, limited coding, limited developer tool knowledge, no-or-limited teamwork experience, other things to indicate incompetent software development skills