[downut]

EDIT: Grrr! This comment meant for the GP, sorry.

I think there is an unstated underlying assumption in this comment that "higher performing" implies "drop-in transferable technical/social skills" legible to the target interviewing entity. Maybe for software but for wide swaths of actually engineering (double graduate engineers in this family) I doubt that rather strongly.

The default 2 weeks vacation for the decades experienced new hire is a pretty strong tell.

[qingcharles]

Coming from the EU, every time I see "2 weeks vacation" I get a twitch.