A recent graduate shares how joining a bank's technology division turned out to involve mostly Excel work, legacy mainframe code, and outsourced implementations, leaving little technical growth and causing anxiety about losing the ability to switch jobs.
The article outlines ten typical mistakes product‑manager job‑seekers make—from using a one‑size‑fits‑all résumé and over‑estimating seniority, to rushing interviews, complaining about former colleagues, chasing salary over growth, ignoring mentorship, neglecting career continuity, blindly targeting big firms, fabricating experience, and idolizing large companies—explaining why each trap harms interview success and long‑term career development.
The article examines why software developers typically change jobs every 1‑3 years, presenting statistics from thousands of engineers, recruiter interview findings, and discussing how learning opportunities and rapid tech‑stack evolution make long‑term tenure at a single firm disadvantageous.
