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> Job hopping is a giant red flag for lots of companies

I noticed that after a year or 2 I get bored because things become a bit too routine. After the third job I decided to just become a midlancer (in a few years want to go full freelance) so I can hop whenever I hit that wall.

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I don't think the conventional wisdom on job hopping is current anymore. It used to be a red flag, and might still be for certain kinds of jobs, but in tech it's quite common and standard to move on after 2-3 years. It would surprise me if interviewers at FAANGs thought 2-3 year tenures at their kind of companies interpreted that as "job hopping."

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