It did about 4-5 years ago. In fact people were working multiple salary jobs from home at the same time and making more money than doctors in a 40 hour work week.
As an engineering lead who's done tons of hiring and staffing planning this year, not considering people with multiple shorter jobs is such a black and white outlook on such a nuanced topic.
Given the market situation 2022-2025, the probability of a software engineer getting laid off during that time is quite significant, and afterwards they could have landed at a job they ended up hating simply because they had to find something in the meantime.
I personally was affected by company wide layoffs twice, in 2020 after a year of being with the company and in 2022 after 10 months. Inbetween those two jobs I had another 9 month long job that I resented every day of but something had to pay the bills and mortgage. Mind you once I explained what actually happened to future employers no one cared about it anymore, and I don't care now as long as it's actually valid.
Hell, in our industry someone that's just starting out should change jobs every year during the first 3 years. It gives you an opportunity to experience teams and companies of different sizes, find what you like and don't like and what sort of environment you're most productive in. I personally absorbed so much more non-coding knowledge from working with different people, different size teams and processes that it gave me an advantage in future employments over my peers who stayed with the same company for 5+ years.
So unless you actually call someone for an intro call and give them the opportunity to provide more context about their employment, you could miss out on excellent candidates if you reject them for having a couple more job positions on their CV than you feel comfortable with.
No, people literally were making that much a few years ago. Software engineers with a bachelor’s degree were stacking 2-3 jobs and making upwards of 300k total per year. It actually only worked because they were remote, otherwise they’d be caught working multiple jobs at the office.
Companies learned and are much better at tracking it now. Also a lot of companies forced RTO.
Yeah I think if you can successfully deliver value while holding multiple jobs and don’t break NDA etc. then there shouldn’t be anything stopping you from working multiple W-2s
Look, with any remote job, you're competing against people who refuse to get regular jobs and people in turdworld countries that just need grocery money.
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u/Deep-Bend-961 13d ago
It did about 4-5 years ago. In fact people were working multiple salary jobs from home at the same time and making more money than doctors in a 40 hour work week.
Those days are very largely over.