[arghnoname]

What I don't understand about this kind of time-intensive stuff is that everyone seems to think good programmers don't need another job, they already have one. As such, they tend to leave on their own terms and don't have periods of extended unemployment proportional to mediocre programmers.

Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't, but at least personally speaking, I always do my interviews with PTO and only quit after I get a job offer I like. I'd never burn PTO for something like that unless it was a truly extraordinary opportunity, and don't better programmers have enough options that they wouldn't have to do so?