One of the things I have noticed lately is that people who change jobs often have completely different perception of the industry as compared to people who don't change that often. Both of the strategies have pros and cons. For instance people who change jobs quite often don't seem to care alot about the business per say they seem to emphasis on the technology more as compared to people who stick to one org. However, people who have changed job quite often, seem to have seen broad variety to problem sets and always bring fresh new pair of eyes to existing business. People who stick to the same org, do tend to become very conservative but it often good for the business as people not quitting brings lot of stability. Again, it really depends on situation, person to person. In general this is my observation.
If you are good in tech that is transferrable skill.
Being good at what your company does is often not that useful anywhere else and usually you get non-compete so you cannot really use it.
If someone is a dev it is better to switch jobs and sharpen your "software stack" skills than waste time on learning whatever business needs. Of course there is some level that one has to understand the business they make code for - but don't overdo it.
You can always argue that every 5 years there is shift, sharpening your software stack might be a continuous process as compared to being a domain expert
If you stay put, you start to believe your own PR. IF you move around you see that most of the things people fixate in aren’t that important or critical, and meanwhile some of the things they refuse to look at are and probably should be fixated on. The apparent differences in priority aren’t necessarily bad or even indicate less concern. They just aren’t as interested in the pet concerns of some verticals that are not universal.
If you’ve been at the same place 5-10 years you have seen only a few rodeos, as it were. Their speculations on how things will play out are based largely on hope, not experience.
