Leaving a software engineering job

Leaving a job is straightforward in some ways — you hand in your resignation and that’s it — but there are some tricky bits.

Re-familiarize yourself with the employment contract. Does it restrict what you can say about your still-current employer?

Don’t do exit interviews.1


  1. Jacob Kaplan-Moss, “Exit Interviews Are a Trap,” April 4, 2022, accessed January 12, 2024. ↩︎

Note last edited January 2024.
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