Comment by ge96

I am the guy that jumped around to get a salary bump kind of looks bad but also a lot of random tech stack experience, one minute I'm doing full stack JS, next I'm doing C# and Rails.

Yeah having a presence does matter. It annoyed me that manager was buddy buddy with a coworker and he was getting all the work... But now I'm friends with my mgr and I get all the work lol, almost wish I didn't. But good learning.

I suppose if you're not after money you could stay at a company for a long time. I don't know I would stay somewhere for 10 yrs just because I'd need change. But yeah I have doubled/tripled my income by jumping jobs after a couple years.