I already had some experience doing contractor jobs but had an offer for BigCorp. My entire onboarding was a pretty bad honestly. Manager was on vacation when I joined, had a mentor that went on parental leave 1 month after I started and was assigned to do mostly menial work (responding to customer tickets, 1-10 line fixes, etc)
About 4 months into the job, my manager started to have our 1:1 walking outside instead of in the office (BigCorp is a campus-style workplace) and explain how I was underperforming. 1 month later "underperforming" turned into "I do not believe you have what is required for a job like this. Not here, not anywhere" o_o'
Understandably I just wanted to stop existing, but did my best to improve. Started leaving late and worked over the weekends.
By month 6, manager went on holiday vacation for 4 weeks. Came back on a Monday and I got fired on a Friday for "not meeting the performance bar expected for my level" and was walked out after lunch...
Spent about 6 weeks studying and then got an offer for another BigCorp and have been a high performer, working on getting a Senior position.
In hindsight, I think that, for some reason, manager did not like me/my work style and/or had some weird high expectation; while I was for sure not a rockstar employee, their assessment of not having "what is required" was just unnecessarily mean. There is no way to judge so harshly a junior employee 4-5 months into their first big job.
Not any lasting impact, other than skipping a lot of details of why I stopped working there while doing interviews :P
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I already had some experience doing contractor jobs but had an offer for BigCorp. My entire onboarding was a pretty bad honestly. Manager was on vacation when I joined, had a mentor that went on parental leave 1 month after I started and was assigned to do mostly menial work (responding to customer tickets, 1-10 line fixes, etc)
About 4 months into the job, my manager started to have our 1:1 walking outside instead of in the office (BigCorp is a campus-style workplace) and explain how I was underperforming. 1 month later "underperforming" turned into "I do not believe you have what is required for a job like this. Not here, not anywhere" o_o'
Understandably I just wanted to stop existing, but did my best to improve. Started leaving late and worked over the weekends.
By month 6, manager went on holiday vacation for 4 weeks. Came back on a Monday and I got fired on a Friday for "not meeting the performance bar expected for my level" and was walked out after lunch...
Spent about 6 weeks studying and then got an offer for another BigCorp and have been a high performer, working on getting a Senior position.
In hindsight, I think that, for some reason, manager did not like me/my work style and/or had some weird high expectation; while I was for sure not a rockstar employee, their assessment of not having "what is required" was just unnecessarily mean. There is no way to judge so harshly a junior employee 4-5 months into their first big job.
Not any lasting impact, other than skipping a lot of details of why I stopped working there while doing interviews :P