[Spooky23]

How do you assess, or even self-assess engineer goodness if they’re never around? Most people take a few months to get productive at a given job and become less productive when they get ready to leave.

So the strawman engineer who has never been at a job for more than a year probably only had 4-6 months of productive work at these jobs, and never had any meaningful responsibilities or career growth.

In my experience, most folks stay around for 2-3 years at a job or >5.