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I think both too much tenure and too little are both "warning signs". Nine times out of ten I'm going to prefer the two year per role candidate to the 20 years at the same enterprise dev shop candidates (who I've universally had the worst experiences with). But if they can't manage at least a year per engagement? That's a bit too active for me generally. I have more confidence in my ability to build an environment that'll encourage people to stay than I have in my ability to rehabilitate a developer with twenty years of ingrained bad habits because they've only seen how one (likely dysfunctional) environment operates.