[jimbo9991]

It's possible that the short tenure is holding you back from the companies with a larger engineering workforce, or from higher level roles. To be honest, it's unusual in my experience to be mid 20s with 5 non internship positions on your resume. I recognize this is not fair in many cases, especially if many of them are startups and whatnot. I would try extra hard to emphasize that (not too on the nose) on your resume.

I know the meme on HackerNews and in tech is to always be job hopping / once a year is fine, but in my experience that isn't as normal as internet people make it seem. People who never did the startup circuit are not going to understand so you need to help them.

[throwbadubadu]

> once a year is fine

Really? Agreed, full red flag and hands off those guys, everytime we hired such a person it ended badly, and they left or had to leave after another year ;) Gaind nothing, usually negative work (though it is unfair to generalize, but why take the risk if there are better candidates).

Even two years, and a fine&competent person, cost of onboarding to everything is usually just too high.

[throwaway_sp11]

I understand. This is something that hasn't crossed my mind, but is a great point. I'll try to rework my resume according to that. I provided some context on the number of positions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610342

[nostromo123]

On the contrary, in my experience startups are even more wary of job hoppers, because the cost of finding people and onboarding is too high.

At my company, we are spending months searching for people, so we are definitely not hiring anyone who will leave after 1-2 years.