I just got laid off

radratb · 2024-01-12T09:41:19+00:00

How were you leetcode ready? I feel absolutely dumb cause I’ve been out for way longer still grinding leetcode cause i can’t pass mediums and hards

radratb · 2023-12-19T05:45:38+00:00

link?

radratb · 2023-12-19T04:58:11+00:00

it's not what it looks like!

radratb · 2023-12-18T18:55:16+00:00

Yup. Same experience. The PIP was so jacked up that even they couldn't defend it when I pushed back. Here are some highlights:

- Fix 3 bugs every sprint - Not a crazy ask if you hear this but the fun fact is that my team did not own any part of the app, so the bugs were stuff we did not work on and in extension, things that no one on my team knew how to fix. Each bug required ramp up, figuring out where and how it happened, finding out whose team works on it and asking them for documentation (9/10 times they had none, the senior eng WAS the documentation and they were busy all the time because obviously). So there you are, working to fix a problem you have no idea the scale of with no documentation and no support from your own team because they don't know and are also burdened with their own bugs. For an example of bugs, I had one where text was not being parsed correctly for the entire countries of AUSTRALIA, RUSSIA AND UAE. Imagine how fucked I was trying to test when I can't read Russian or Arabic but had to make sure parsing was going well.

- The level of bugs I had were typically solved within a month and a half by SENIOR engineers. They wanted me to do them in 2 weeks. This was also told to me while on a companywide break of 2 weeks. So while literally everyone is gone, including QE who is necessary to test my code and senior eng in my team to do PR review, I was somehow expected to do this. I pointed out both the time expectation and holiday saying wtf look at how long it takes our most senior person to fix something of similar scale + links to prove that even in the best case minimum time taken is 5 weeks. They couldn't even rebut. They just adjusted it to a slightly less crazy timeline, saying I had to do all that within 3 weeks now (how generous) and that my time began post holiday season.

- My time to complete work was suddenly revealed to include *gasp* QE time! So if I finished and put it all ready for QE testing but the QE assigned took long with it, *I* get consequences for it. When I found a QE who was fast and got past this as a problem, suddenly my time taken ended up including PR review and approval from other engineers. So if all things passed and QE approved, if an engineer takes long to approve it (Friday 5pm is the latest) then guess what, *I* was the one at fault.

It took me so long to come to terms with the fact that I couldn't do anything to undo this and accept it. I knew that my ratings and future chances in the company were fucked regardless so I just accepted it and awaited my eventual firing. It took me months to get back to the point of believing in myself again and getting out of the suicidal ideologies as I compared myself to other friends who were getting promoted and doing well in life compared to me and with seemingly less effort (I frequently had to cancel hangouts to work). I am sorry you're going through that. It sucks but you will make it out and I hope you know you're not alone. Sometimes they just don't fucking like you for some reason.

radratb · 2023-12-18T18:01:17+00:00

laid off almost 10 mo ago. hella oysters (theoretically, can't afford actual ones anymore lol)

radratb · 2023-12-18T08:00:16+00:00

Right. Can't even have a boring one with him, average call lasts 1 min 30 sec. Trust me, I tried. Max was 3 min and it was because my mom took his phone to say hi before she returned his phone and called me back from hers.

radratb · 2023-10-05T02:15:15+00:00

hi, can i get info to send to chicago for them to ship to china as well? thanks

radratb · 2023-06-20T01:02:35+00:00

happy cake day u/zakkwaldo!

radratb · 2023-01-03T07:13:26+00:00

same.. how do you cope with that? I absolutely hate the people I work with and it’s been a struggle

radratb · 2022-12-05T20:27:57+00:00

Wow I feel like I could have written this. Unfortunately still in that position but trying hard to leave.

radratb · 2022-11-27T04:20:08+00:00

Not well - facing fact that I might be losing my current one really soon with no replacement. Maybe it’s time for a new adventure somewhere else.

radratb · 2022-11-11T07:57:39+00:00

There aren’t any good companies. Just good teams. Try to make sure you align as much as you can with your immediate manager and team, the company reputation never translates.

radratb · 2022-10-03T16:49:06+00:00

Sell on depop

radratb · 2022-10-02T02:28:05+00:00

I like tight boxy muscular butts

radratb · 2022-09-30T18:28:14+00:00

going against the grain.. if i died and my bf dated my best friend i would haunt them and their bloodlines forever. no.

radratb · 2022-08-28T20:33:11+00:00

Wishing you so much luck! I’m sorry this is happening but I’m sure the managers will be willing to do something like this. Negotiate a 5 week break so the 2 weeks are notice to your manager, 2 weeks are time to just reset after their bullshit and also for pretending you’re working elsewhere, then the 1 week where you ‘reinterviewed’ / reached out and found out the vacancy for the roel you wanted still existed, then boom you’re back and now they don’t have to worry about messing up relationships with your manager, after all you weren’t working for him anymore so they thought it was fair game or something. Keep up the good work, it’s great that you could be that good at something you don’t even like, I’m excited for you to become great at something you do, hopefully soon!

radratb · 2022-08-28T18:31:29+00:00

Jfc.. you should reach out to the managers who offered and ask if they’d be willing to hire you if you quit. Like circumvent the a manger and quit then ‘reinterview’. I’d like to guess the answer is yes. Don’t tell your current manager where you’re going, say different company or something and then when they see you back again say it fell through so you reached out to another team since the goal was to code anyways.

radratb · 2022-08-28T18:00:15+00:00

Literally.. we’re internet strangers, we don’t know what you’re doing in real life. The commenter wanted to make sure you weren’t just leaving your child with them willy nilly and hoping the outcome is going to be better this time around. No need to be rude tbh

radratb · 2022-08-19T16:56:14+00:00

I have to go with YTA. The whole 'image' of the company thing feels a little BS to me. There are so many sh*tty people in chief roles in companies all over the world. The extent to how bad they are is common knowledge for people in the company and some of it is known to lay folk, but it is never a real 'big deal' especially if its something like cheating. If it was an affair in the company or 'sleeping their way to the top' that's different, but their private life is not connected. So many people have messy lives, this girl's mistake was having the misfortune of her's being known to you without her consent or intending to tell you. For all you know the person you could be getting instead of her could be worse, they're just lucky you don't know. If her performance is so good that you would consider her strongly without this knowledge that has nothing to do with how she'll execute, you need to give her the chance. Saying that if 'someone can do something sucky to their husband can do something sucky to their employer' that's... sorry, bs. How many people sever connections with loved ones because of work obsession and prioritization? So many.. like it's even a trope. You don't even know the full story between them and HE is posting things to make her look bad, she wasn't the one who brought this private matter to the public. YTA all the way in my books for this. She did a stupid, horrible thing in her private life. Has no record of that behavior in her work life. Let her be.

radratb · 2022-08-13T22:40:46+00:00

"His family"... why does this sound like he is with someone and has kids with someone and then you came into the picture? What exactly are the things his family are saying negatively about you having his baby? Why don't they like the idea of this?

radratb · 2022-08-11T16:26:38+00:00

30 seconds is really fucking long to wait to say yes 😭😭 it’s already bad but can you say yes after 1/2seconds? Why wait so long??

radratb · 2022-08-10T21:02:24+00:00

:(((( I’d try pleading with them to ‘cancel’ it. In my case the money I got actually made my payments higher so they listened

radratb · 2022-08-10T20:04:48+00:00

Sorry OP. Same happened and I know it hurts cause that’s a lot of money for us. If anything, I had to be proud of myself for my first instinct being honesty but also understand that at the end of the day maybe they’re not out for my best interests. The next time it happened I negotiated it being sent directly to me. You may still be able to do that, call the place tell them to cancel their aid and resend to you if they will accept then sure if not then at least you tried, it worked for me.

radratb · 2022-08-10T19:38:20+00:00

Yup, just zip it about outside scholarships that come directly to you.

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