Fellow here, I wanted to +1 job hopping. I went from $75k in 2020 to $200k in 2026 doing this. If I stayed at a company I'd need 2 promotions and with COLA 3% adjustment I'd still be short of my current wage by quite a bit. Loyalty pays with underpaying, but gives you a sense of job security.

Having multiple offers creates a bid war, much like the COVID house prices that's how you can inflate your salary. Also, salary > RSU + bonus + salary

Edit: and so it's clear - my improvement is an outlier, usually it's 20-30% when you job hop, I just ended up picking up a very niche role no one does and jumped to that payband

Yep, plan on changing jobs every two and a half to three and a half years.

Be willing to lie on your resume to improve your chances of getting the specific job you're applying for, but only lie enough that you could watch a YouTube video and fill in the gap between the absolute truth and the expectation.

Don't say that you understand Azure if you've never used a Windows computer before, but if you have run a home lab with proxmox, and they're looking for a VMware administrator, you're probably okay.

can confirm, and would like to add:

• it helps a lot to understand the org and the internal politics. (this is simpler as it sounds. just be generally nice to people and try to understand what they want, and what their actual position in the org are. Then think about what your actual position in the org is, and where it could be. Most importantly ask yourself: What does my boss's boss think what value I produce for him?)

Job hopping is the best way to get better money and job title. It's worth staying for a few years ever once in a while if you prefer the stability over the income bump. I am in my stable phase while my children are young before jumping again. I am thinking maybe 5 years or so. Unless the great job comes

It should also be noted this guy's boss or boss's boss is a moron. It's a requirement of such a position existing

It also helps to be a soulless husk with no regard for human decency.

The number of things that run on excel in the corporate world is staggering...

Even without a degree, supply chain and logistics is the answer. I didn't finish college, and I'm comfortably making six figures. I literally spend five hours a day playing on my phone. No one cares, and my boss tells everyone how great I am.

That will get you nothing, but maybe an STD.

Assistant to manager*

head of IT and software

Oh boyyy I had a boss a few summers ago that was like this. He was more suited to English and Medieval history and would go in depth about the topics he was passionate about.

He may have admitted to me that he was holding the job down to make his parents happy. In one afternoon he seemed to be genuinely intrigued to learn what solid state storage looked like, which baffles me since he had a Masters in Information Technology.

Most people didn’t really like him due to his poor social skills, but he was at least not “that kind of boss” that actively tried to fire anyone. More so, he was slightly at risk of it himself, since it was heard through the grapevine that his previous supervisor wanted him “fired for incompetence” but he ended up getting the job through sheer workplace turnover.