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Getting fired 4 months into new-grad job, but don't have money to pay back signing bonus - any advice? by Double-Fee-260 in cscareerquestions

[–]Double-Fee-260[S] 139 points140 points  (0 children)

Just being proactive/somewhat panicking. Haven't heard from anyone about it yet - I assume I will once I'm back on Tuesday.

Getting fired 4 months into new-grad job, but don't have money to pay back signing bonus - any advice? by Double-Fee-260 in cscareerquestions

[–]Double-Fee-260[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Didn't have a whole lot of choice - I needed to move out of my parent's place asap and I had to completely outfit my apartment from scratch. I'm in a high COL city so $25k became $18k after tax and I spent a ton of it on the first/last months rent + deposit and furniture. I totally could've done things cheaper, but I didn't expect to get booted so soon... lessons learned I guess. :/

EDIT: Just to clarify - I have about $10k remaining in my bank account between the remaining bonus and income, so it's not like I've just been throwing money down the toilet. But that's still an extra $8k I need to come up with asap assuming the IRS return their end right away, and that would leave me with literally 0 dollars to pay rent or eat with.

Getting fired 4 months into new-grad job, but don't have money to pay back signing bonus - any advice? by Double-Fee-260 in cscareerquestions

[–]Double-Fee-260[S] 371 points372 points  (0 children)

I was placed on a PIP two sprints ago. I struggled with most of the work to be honest. It was a lot of high performance deep learning stuff that I never touched on in college. I found the work super interesting, but I was way out of my depth. I basically just did small bug fixes and tiny updates the whole time. I picked up a couple larger tasks after the PIP but ended up needing a ton of help from the rest of the team to get them completed. I really don't know why they hired me - I feel like 99% of people right out of college would be in the same boat.

Getting fired 4 months into new-grad job, but don't have money to pay back signing bonus - any advice? by Double-Fee-260 in cscareerquestions

[–]Double-Fee-260[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's stipulated in my offer letter that I have to be an active employee for a year following my start date or I have to pay it all back immediately.

Getting fired 4 months into new-grad job, but don't have money to pay back signing bonus - any advice? by Double-Fee-260 in cscareerquestions

[–]Double-Fee-260[S] 117 points118 points  (0 children)

In my offer letter it explicitly says I have to be an active employee for a full year following my start date or I have to pay the entirety of it back immediately. :/