Someone made a good observation, I think that exactly two years is the period from when a person starts working hard, making every effort, subordinating their private life to this company - until the moment when they work the bare minimum and start sending applications to as many other companies as possible. I am a little over two years here and I've already had too much of this place. It’s funny when I remember how much I worked when I first got a job here, thinking it was important for my career.
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For premium jobs, any more than 3 years DXC experience puts your cv in the bin file.
Compare work experience at DXC similar to burger flipping at mcdonnalds
I think I read somewhere that most folk in IT now change jobs every 3 years or so, it's quicker and easier to do that to get payrises than it is to get them by staying in-situ. It also means that you get experience of working with different companies, technologies, sectors etc. too.
Having a candidate who has had multiple jobs lasting less than two years, or maybe eighteen months, has historically been something of a warning sign when you are looking to recruit someone. The perception is that someone flits from job to job and do you want to recruit someone, train them up (not that this really happens anymore) for them to then leave fairly quickly? Not so sure that applies so much now as corporates have basically trashed employee loyalty.
Obviously this doesn't apply to contractors who by their very nature may have lots of short engagements.
2 years is really enough!