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I’m 18 months in to my current role. Strong performance reviews but promotion is based on tenure so I need to wait at least another two years to have a good shot. Or, I can go elsewhere and get the promotion (and remote work, which is what I really want).

If I move again, I plan to stay at least five years for the reasons in this thread.

But employers sometimes forget that even current employees are still operating in the jobs market.

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If you have that issue at every company you work for it's a red flag. If you've had 3+ jobs and they all have tenures of <2 years it's a red flag.

This is just not true.

How is it not? How does anyone join a company and make any significant contributions in less than 2 years? How do you even become a leader within a company in less than two years? You just throw out all the relationships you have built every 2 years? It is a red flag.

What do you consider a significant contribution?

I spent 18 months in my first post-PhD job and in that time I drove consolidation of all of the tests (code base has acquired 6 frameworks over 20 years) into a single framework and got people actually writing new tests. I fixed parallel building which brought down the clean build time from 3 hours to 15 minutes. I did the work for a feature which was used as the major marketing selling point in that year. I got a very decent pay rise and bonus because of these things before I left.

Thanks for this example because so many people have 2 to 3 year of experience in a position with great experience and stories.

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