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Discussion on: How much time do we stay in a company ?

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protium

Maybe the answer is not a discrete amount of time.
The factors that made me leave a company were:

Getting bored because the tasks I have
Feeling stuck in my career (not learning new things)

I think you could work in the same company for 10 years and you will feel really good because you like every aspect of it. But if something triggers in your mind the idea to leave you have to look up for all the reasons. Time could be one but is always a consequence of other feelings.

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Jonathan SIMONNEY

Thank you for the answer, but I don't ask that because I intend to leave my company, but rather because I like to put some objective numbers on feelings / preconceived ideas I have about our industry (and I'd like to know if I am the only one with these ideas, because I often read posts of people leaving / having left their job).

As for the time spent, I thought if it wasn't an almost immediate leave (like before one year or something like it), it could also be that people wanted to try something new, not to stay forever in the same company (no matter how great it was), and sometimes to build their own product.