Nowadays, it’s rare to meet an engineer who’s been at the same company for a decade. Job hopping is more the norm — even encouraged.
Michael Winslow, an engineering leader, speaker and author, acknowledged this when we spoke the week after he left his tenure at Comcast.
He came to the company from Oracle in 2013, first in a contracting role as a scrum master and lead software developer on the X1 platform manager project that helped engineers and frontline Comcast workers to get the info they needed about accounts quicker. When a new project presented itself, Winslow made a bid for a full-time role. Over the next several years, he moved around between teams and projects with the mindset of keeping his skills sharp.
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