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No matter how good they are, don’t do it!
“Why are we interviewing this guy?” I asked Jeroen, our VP Engineering. “Look at his resume, he’s bounced from one company to the next.”
“’Terry’s’ a really talented engineer,” Jeroen responded. “I think you should meet with him.”
“But look at his resume,” I said. “It’s one year here, two years there for 20 years. Except for that one five year stint, there’s no continuity.
“I’ll meet with him, but I’m skeptical.”
You should always ask why someone jumped from company to company.
I walked over to the small conference room to meet with Terry. I opened the door and I entered the room. He stood up to shake my hand and smiled.
“That’s a good sign,” I said to myself. Terry seemed like the typical, geeky, analog IC engineers I had been working with for years.
I got down to business.
“So, walk me through your career,” I said.
Terry then proceeded to tell me about his career path and the companies he had worked at. Of course, he didn’t spend any time explaining why he had bounced around.
