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Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by baccheion »

I was being harassed all day long, everything they advertised as being their work environment ended up being BS, I wasn't able to do anything, nothing available was worthwhile, there was a lot of anal retentiveness and Jness (MBTI) present, the environment was generally unpleasant, and I quickly realized I was wasting my life in that place.

It was annoying, as the place I'm referring to is the almighty Google. This was many years ago, but I still remember very clearly the huge gap between what was advertised and what they actually were.

The previous job was at an old world company (rated as one of the 50 worst places to work by Glassdoor while I was there) and the idiot manager I had was on an entirely different level.

Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by cstoner »

dozzie wrote: post #18
holycode wrote: post #6

I'm still in the job, but I'm looking for a new one. My reasons are stagnation, no proper training and mentoring (I'm a junior web developer with no prior experience), an extremely low salary (borderline minimum wage), among other reasons. If only I had enough saved-up money to survive for a couple of months, I'd have quit a long time ago.

I'm always wondering what people who want "mentoring" expect from a mentor.

I'd imagine things like bite-sized projects of the appropriate skill level so that they learn something. One of the harder things about being a junior employee is knowing what you're supposed to be doing at any time.

Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by jdubs »

When I realized the product manager was finding features on wikipedia and had no real customers in the pipeline. A VP told me to lie on an expense report, while managers & architects were able to expense 1k+ meals.

I knew something was up when a different VP told me to care less about the product, company and the work that I was doing.

Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by jdubs »

shivaodin wrote: post #11
richfnelson wrote: post #9

I left a web dev job about a month ago. I liked a lot about the company. It was a three-man dev team at an e-commerce startup and we ran a Rails/Angular webapp. The founders were great and the culture fit my personality very well. I left the company after ~6 months because I did not get along well with one of the other developers. We had extreme communication problems and they were causing unnecessary stress. I like…

This is one of most common reasons to leave a job; unfortunately no one will acknowledge or admit it. I wanted to succeed in my previous company and built rapport with my manager and other team mates. We had a reorg, and another developer from another vertical joined our team. He was not interested in coding and would not code review any code. I called him out once during a pairing session but he went defensive. He t…

It's amazing how some manager's words can have such an impact on a team.

Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by hammock »

jdubs wrote: post #23

When I realized the product manager was finding features on wikipedia and had no real customers in the pipeline. A VP told me to lie on an expense report, while managers & architects were able to expense 1k+ meals. I knew something was up when a different VP told me to care less about the product, company and the work that I was doing.

What do you mean finding features on Wikipedia?

Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by gravypod »

dozzie wrote: post #18
holycode wrote: post #6

I'm still in the job, but I'm looking for a new one. My reasons are stagnation, no proper training and mentoring (I'm a junior web developer with no prior experience), an extremely low salary (borderline minimum wage), among other reasons. If only I had enough saved-up money to survive for a couple of months, I'd have quit a long time ago.

I'm always wondering what people who want "mentoring" expect from a mentor.

Someone to feed you projects slowly and show you how to get started before you're left to your own devices.

Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by Mc_Big_G »

keviv wrote: post #12

I spent close to 6 years at a startup before quitting. I was an early employee there. Deep within my heart I knew I had to. I couldn't explain it to my friends or my family what made me take this decision. All I knew was it was about time. I just got too comfortable working there. Life became too monotonous. In the end, I just followed my heart. After 8 months, I might be making a bit less money, I might have given a…

You weren't fully vested after 6 years?

Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by et-al »

richfnelson wrote: post #9

I left a web dev job about a month ago. I liked a lot about the company. It was a three-man dev team at an e-commerce startup and we ran a Rails/Angular webapp. The founders were great and the culture fit my personality very well. I left the company after ~6 months because I did not get along well with one of the other developers. We had extreme communication problems and they were causing unnecessary stress. I like…

I don't know the whole story, and I don't mean to trivialize your bad experience, but this section jumped out:

> I like to talk to people and joke around with my coworkers. This individual did not seem to have the same desire. On the company’s general slack channel, almost everyone would get in on the socializing, with /giphys and jokes and whatnot… everyone except this one developer. They never, ever said a single thing on slack that was not business-related. They never even said anything out loud that was not business related.

On a more general note, we should caution not to ostracize individuals just because they don't fit in with the prevailing culture. Yes, having people with the same sense of humor is great (I regularly add ridiculous ASCII art to commit messages). It smooths over the more difficult times, but this emphasis on cultural fit is one of the more delicate points in tech right now and why Silicon Valley has this stigma of "brogramming" (puke).

And again, I wasn't there, and the person could've been an asshole of epic proportions, but the lead in gave the impression on focusing on their difference instead of the qualities of their assho--n/m. You get my point. I'm glad things ultimately worked out, and hope they continue to do so.

/steps off soapbox

Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

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Post by et-al »

Mc_Big_G wrote: post #28
keviv wrote: post #12

I spent close to 6 years at a startup before quitting. I was an early employee there. Deep within my heart I knew I had to. I couldn't explain it to my friends or my family what made me take this decision. All I knew was it was about time. I just got too comfortable working there. Life became too monotonous. In the end, I just followed my heart. After 8 months, I might be making a bit less money, I might have given a…

You weren't fully vested after 6 years?

One can be fully vested in options that amount to next-to-nothing.
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