A developer with hands-on experience in Java, spring boot,AI/ML, GenAI & Agentic AI joined a new company excited and ready to contribute.
Here's what his first months looked like 👇
📌 No KT session. Not one.
📌 Asked Developer A for help → "Ask Developer B"
📌 Asked Developer B for help → "Ask Developer A"
📌 1.5 months passed. Still no project setup.
📌 No database access. No system walkthrough. Nothing.
📌 Saturday call → "Work on this"
📌 Sunday call → "Why isn't this done?"
📌 Then one day — 600+ queries + Java tasks assigned cold.
📌 On a system. Nobody. Ever. Explained.
And when he struggled?
"You don't know Java. You don't know anything."
Said by the same people who never once sat with him.
He wasn't the first to walk out that door.
🔴 Someone left at 10 days
🔴 Someone left at 30 days
🔴 Someone left at 3 months
🔴 Someone left at 1.5 month
4 people. 4 months. All gone.
And the company never once asked —
"What are WE doing wrong?"
This is what toxic culture really looks like.
It's not always loud.
It's not always obvious.
Sometimes it's just —
Silence when someone needs guidance.
Blame when someone needs support.
Pressure when someone needs direction.
It kills confidence quietly.
It breaks motivated people slowly.
It disguises failure as someone else's weakness.
To anyone silently surviving this right now —
Your skills are not the problem. 👊
Leaving is not failure.
Protecting your peace is the smartest career move you'll ever make.
To every Manager and Team Lead —
Your best people will not complain.
They will not argue.
They will not beg for help twice.
They will simply leave.
And you'll spend months wondering why.
Culture is not what you say.
It's what you allow — every single day.
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Have you ever experienced this? 👇
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