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If you're just in a comfort zone in essentially the same role the whole time, it's not great. At early in a career, moving jobs every few years is a good way to get some diverse experiences and good raise.

However, if you have good domain knowledge and relationships, you might be in a good position to stay, and get into management, move around, etc. If you get laid off, you're get a pretty good severance (10 years * 1 month salary maybe).

If you look around at senior management, you'll probably see a bunch of people who have been there 10, 15, 20 years and know everyone and everything... maybe try to be one of those. That's not something you can get with the job hopping strategy.





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