Well, the first time it was at the end of my contract, so they just didn't renew it, even though I had the results. Turns out that my boss made me do work that wasn't actually related to the company. I had no idea, but I was caught in the middle (also my boss was fired). Pretty sad, but in retrospect nothing of value was lost, at least for me. Colleagues were nice, though, but we never bonded outside work.
Then my boss and I got hired to the company we were (secretely) working for. In almost 5 years I think I grew a lot as a developer, even though there was none who could teach me anything. All was good, until business went down, the company owner decided that "the Web isn't going to cut it, the future is mobile apps!" (in 2014?!), my former boss was now working part-time because he had to deal with an auto-immune syndrome, and in the end I got fired for "disciplinary" reasons. (They were "kind enough" to officially put it as a staff cut for economic restructuring and gave me severance.)
That was depressing, because I actually gave my best and brought results.
Again, in the end it was for the best. First, because they thought I was a junior developer, but I was surely more than that: I could develop and deploy an application from scratch, design the full stack, bring in new tools (I was the one who introduced code version control in the company - and it was SVN, not even git!). But somehow it wasn't acknowledged: none was doing what I was doing.
And then, because they made me feel I wasn't a good team member.
In the new (and current) company, they never doubted of my seniority. There were colleagues who could actually confirm the quality of my code, and I could do the same with them - I actually learnt a lot, and enjoyed it. I made new, actual friends; we often hang out together outside work, have parties (not just company's, which happen twice a year), and I even met my fiancée through my coworkers.
The results speak for themselves: the current company grow 4.5 times; the other folded two years later.
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I have. Twice, kind of.
Well, the first time it was at the end of my contract, so they just didn't renew it, even though I had the results. Turns out that my boss made me do work that wasn't actually related to the company. I had no idea, but I was caught in the middle (also my boss was fired). Pretty sad, but in retrospect nothing of value was lost, at least for me. Colleagues were nice, though, but we never bonded outside work.
Then my boss and I got hired to the company we were (secretely) working for. In almost 5 years I think I grew a lot as a developer, even though there was none who could teach me anything. All was good, until business went down, the company owner decided that "the Web isn't going to cut it, the future is mobile apps!" (in 2014?!), my former boss was now working part-time because he had to deal with an auto-immune syndrome, and in the end I got fired for "disciplinary" reasons. (They were "kind enough" to officially put it as a staff cut for economic restructuring and gave me severance.)
That was depressing, because I actually gave my best and brought results.
Again, in the end it was for the best. First, because they thought I was a junior developer, but I was surely more than that: I could develop and deploy an application from scratch, design the full stack, bring in new tools (I was the one who introduced code version control in the company - and it was SVN, not even git!). But somehow it wasn't acknowledged: none was doing what I was doing.
And then, because they made me feel I wasn't a good team member.
In the new (and current) company, they never doubted of my seniority. There were colleagues who could actually confirm the quality of my code, and I could do the same with them - I actually learnt a lot, and enjoyed it. I made new, actual friends; we often hang out together outside work, have parties (not just company's, which happen twice a year), and I even met my fiancée through my coworkers.
The results speak for themselves: the current company grow 4.5 times; the other folded two years later.