Resigning could blackball you from future employment. - Senior Design Engineer Micron Technology Employee Review

If you’re a stellar performer and you resign for a better opportunity at another company, some in management tend to take it personally. They may walk you out the door immediately despite a 2+ week notice or longer offer to commit to complete current projects, work, or provide training for your replacement . Then if you do leave and try to come back, some former managers may bad-talk you to the the hiring manager. This short-sighted tactic effectively blackballs a former employee from being rehired in the future and serves to discourage from even applying again. This seems especially true if the former employee was a stellar performer and thought they had left on good terms. The Meritocracy implemented in recent years has caused many in management to “manage by spreadsheet” and to load their teams up with only degreed engineers and candidates that fit diversity hiring criteria. This results in hiring team members based on racial, gender, and sexual orientation biases instead of competitively on a candidate’s ability to perform the job functions relative to other candidates. Hiring is slowwww. Taking 6months, 12months, or even longer from the date of application. The longer an applicant waits the much higher likelihood a market downturn will cancel the job requisition before they can be hired.