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So first of all, I want to say this is MY BIASED account of the situation. While I do not intend to reveal the employer’s na...
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Kudos for sharing this story . It must have been difficult to reflect back on. This is literally my nightmare scenario.
This is underated advice. As much as the employer is interviewing you . It also your time to interview them as well!
Agreed. Now that you bring it up, very rarely in mock interviews are people trying to interview to discern information about the company (to be fair, the interviewer likely doesn't have this prepared anyway). I think it would make a great mock interview where the interviewee practices trying to find out what kind of company they are going to be working for.
Chad, so sorry this is what you experienced. Thank you for sharing this. It is a good reminder for all levels of software engineers, whether starting with a new company/team or as a manager adding new staff.
A walk-through should have been the minimum amount of direction they should have provided. Best would have been a week's onboarding and pair-programming with established team members.
It also sounds like HR did a bait-and-switch to provide a warm body without meeting the team's immediate needs. This screams of a lack of communication between HR and the engineering manager, with duplicity possibly on both sides (HR & Manager).
May 2021 be a better year for us all!
There wasn't much of an HR department but it was definitely a 'just get someone in there' type of hire. It's weird because during the interview process I made it a point to say that I wasn't a Senior Dev and while I can do work, I wasn't some rock star.
The whole situation is pretty weird. I was hired by a separate company and put on this team which belonged to another company. When I was 'fired' from this team, I talk to the person from the company who would have signed my paychecks. Tried to tell him this story the Monday afterwards and his immediate reaction was "Well I don't understand because [my manager] gave the work to someone whose suppose to be more junior than you and they did it no problem..." He told me that we'd speak again because he was busy and couldn't talk. Waited a couple of days, hadn't heard back and just decided to quit out of absolute frustration.
I don't mention this in the story to keep it focused on this situation for clarity but honestly, it was somewhat all over the place.
Wow Chad... I'm sorry you had this awful experience. I know it will be difficult, but don't let it taint your outlook going forward. Try to let this roll off your shoulders. It's apparent that you learned a few important lessons here so definitely hold onto those, but leave the bitterness back in 2020. The new year brings new opportunities!!
Thank you for sharing your experience, Chad. It is horrible that you had to go through this experience, but at least you've been able to pull out a few lessons learned which will only help you better look out for yourself in the future.
I wish you the best of luck in your continuing search for a new role. ❤️
Brutal! Ouch!
Thank you for sharing your experience. I think sharing it will help others.
If you get a chance, TypeScript is a good language. It helps make JavaScript a better language. It could have been called "JavaScript, slightly enhanced". Too bad you had to encounter it under such circumstances. :-(
Wow great write up of a traumatic experience that no one deserves to experience. Good luck with your future endeavours
I can relate so much to this, as there are many overlaps on your story and mine. I worked for them within the span of a month, but instead I resigned as I know what's gonna happen. First off, I was working on the tech I didn't applied for, and I think the HR of the Outsourcing Agency just sent my resume to another employer by mistake who is in urgent need of a Dev, and that time I really need a job, too. So in the interview, I learned some things about their tech stack and I almost see what will happen if I get into this company as I don't fit the role they need, since it's not what I applied for in the first place. Anyway, they still hired me likely because they badly need a developer that time as they're a startup, just a few months old, and they're on between deadlines, and on my end, I accepted the offer because like what I said earlier, I badly needed a job that time as it's the middle of the pandemic. So I started the following week. I got a week of on boarding, but I know this is not the job I applied for, my tech stack doesn't match theirs, so I don't enjoy my time working for them as I have no any idea how to properly do the job. Long story short, I messed a lot of things as I'm still learning their tech while I was demanded quality work right away. The following days makes me feel something wrong in the air based on how the team and the manager behaves in my presence. I know I'll be fired anytime soon, so I decided to write my resignation letter right away, and talked straightly to the manager and said I'll resign. It seems a relief in his face, and so did I as things get really toxic between my relationship with the company. Now, I'm just working as a Freelancer, and I'm only doing technical writing jobs, making blog posts and articles about web dev, no coding, and not a full time job anymore, due to the additional anxiety I endured with that job.
Oh sorry, I might not have been clear with that. They originally wanted to bring me on to be staff-augmented to another company. The other company interviewed me and didn't want me (interviewed a Front End Developer for a Back End position 🤷♂️) and so the intention was to have me just work with the company and then they'd try to place me in a staff-augmented position again.
To be honest, this whole thing was weird but it just went to hell in a hand basket when I got on this team.