Asking for some mid career advice. I’ve often heard “don’t stay in one position too long in networking. Your skills will get stale, you’ll get complacent and forget how to properly interview and job hunt, and all that will come back to bite you if you suddenly get laid off, or if your company goes under/gets bought out.”
I’m guessing there’s no answer of “how long should you stay in one position,” but rather how far behind should you get with new technologies.
If you are at a company that’s still doing three tier design, without VXLAN/EVPN, without doing any automation, without doing SDA/SDWAN, and no signs of doing any of that any time soon, should you leave? How long could you go not getting exposure to this stuff before you stop being considered “behind” and start being labeled as obsolete?
Also is there a stigma against seeing one really long tenure at a position (10-20 yrs) when hiring for senior engineers, rather than seeing a diverse array of positions of about 2-4 years each?
And can things like interviewing well and be quick to learn carry you though staying in one place forever and never touching new technologies?
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