[mak4athp]

> Then again, if I'm hiring a rockstar engineer ... If all they want to do is come in for 6 months and crank out some projects and leave, I'll probably still be grateful to have them for that time.

In 6 months, you won't know that your hire is a "rockstar". You'll know that they were opinionated and that they took initiative. You (and they) won't learn about the technical debt, unmaintainability, and latent carnage they left until well after their gone -- which is probably what happened at their prior employers as well.

If they really ever proved themselves to be that great, some prior employer would have paid them mountains in compensation just to keep them around and their resume would probably looked different.