[veyron]

The sticky thing about industry experience is that its hard to evaluate expectations.

on the one side, someone who hops from job to job every 6 months has a stability issue [prove to me that you can stick through this venture, long enough for it to reach critical mass].

on the other side, someone who stays at a job for many years may expect a senior role [i.e. must manage a team of coders], possibly rendering them ineffective.

as someone in finance, i can assert that most CS guys in finance fall in one of those two categories.