<story><title>Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m a software engineer at Uber.  I&amp;#x27;ve been there for under a year.  I left my previous job because an Uber recruiter offered a large pay increase.  I had been there for under a year as well.&lt;p&gt;Is it worse to have the job hopping on my resume or a very unpopular company on there?&lt;p&gt;Staying for a while wouldn&amp;#x27;t be hard on me.  My team and the ones around me aren&amp;#x27;t toxic (yet).  I&amp;#x27;m strictly concerned with the impact on my career.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>engatuber</author><text>Thanks!&lt;p&gt;As long as I stayed with that employer for longer than a year I would be fine, or would the period of job-hopping look bad permanently?</text></item><item><author>joss82</author><text>The impact on your career should not be much.&lt;p&gt;As an employer, I would not turn down any ex-Uber, as long as he or she did not trigger warning lights during the interviews.&lt;p&gt;Just focus on the technichal side and the money. If you feel good every morning when you wake up to go working for them, then stay.&lt;p&gt;If not, then that would make a great explanation to your next employer for him&amp;#x2F;her not to consider you a job hopper. Along the lines of &amp;quot;I quit at Uber because, as you very well know, the culture there was toxic and yours looks much more interesting, blah blah...&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thehardsphere</author><text>Any job you stay less than two years at is going to look funny and require some sort of explanation.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re at a job for less than six months, the assumption people will make is that you and the company were a bad fit. &amp;quot;Bad fit&amp;quot; can be interpreted as &amp;quot;applicant was incompetent and hired by mistake&amp;quot; so, having your own explanation about why you were a bad fit helps. Maybe you don&amp;#x27;t even list this job on your resume.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re at a job for less than a year, then the assumption people could make is that you got a bad first performance review, and you&amp;#x27;re changing jobs now instead of getting fired later.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;ve been at a job for at least two years, then people will assume your performance has been reviewed at least twice and that if you were actually bad, you would have been fired.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m a software engineer at Uber.  I&amp;#x27;ve been there for under a year.  I left my previous job because an Uber recruiter offered a large pay increase.  I had been there for under a year as well.&lt;p&gt;Is it worse to have the job hopping on my resume or a very unpopular company on there?&lt;p&gt;Staying for a while wouldn&amp;#x27;t be hard on me.  My team and the ones around me aren&amp;#x27;t toxic (yet).  I&amp;#x27;m strictly concerned with the impact on my career.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>engatuber</author><text>Thanks!&lt;p&gt;As long as I stayed with that employer for longer than a year I would be fine, or would the period of job-hopping look bad permanently?</text></item><item><author>joss82</author><text>The impact on your career should not be much.&lt;p&gt;As an employer, I would not turn down any ex-Uber, as long as he or she did not trigger warning lights during the interviews.&lt;p&gt;Just focus on the technichal side and the money. If you feel good every morning when you wake up to go working for them, then stay.&lt;p&gt;If not, then that would make a great explanation to your next employer for him&amp;#x2F;her not to consider you a job hopper. Along the lines of &amp;quot;I quit at Uber because, as you very well know, the culture there was toxic and yours looks much more interesting, blah blah...&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cardine</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m going to disagree with a lot of the other responses you are receiving.&lt;p&gt;If it happens once or twice and there is a good story&amp;#x2F;explanation that goes along with it that is fine, but I actively avoid candidates who switch jobs every year or so. In my opinion it takes a decent amount of time to understand everything within any given company or codebase (especially one that has a decent level of complexity or specialized knowledge). I don&amp;#x27;t want an unstable environment where people are leaving just as they begin to fully understand things to the point where they are extremely productive.&lt;p&gt;Along those same lines I think it is the responsibility of an employer to give raises that are equivalent to the salaries they would pay to poach people with a similar level of experience. If you are willing to give someone a significant raise to leave their current company you should be willing to do that for someone within your own company.</text></comment>