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I've always had this scenario in my head ... Here is what I think you should do : 1. Tell your boss you quit, because of the facts you point here. Tell your co

I've always had this scenario in my head ... Here is what I think you should do : 1. Tell your boss you quit, because of the facts you point here. Tell your co-workers you quit, because you are not satisfied with the job. ( You will have done the best thing for the company if you do that ). 2. Find a new job/work and don't talk about why you quit your previous job in details. Just tell your new boss : "Well I wasn't satisfied with the team. I didn't have a chance to be valuable, because of their closed-culture. They didn't want anything more from me than being a non-thinking programmer.". Trust me, he will like this. If he doesn't you will end up in the same company 3. In between ... start working on an open source project with good reputation to gain back your confidence ( if you've lost something out of your job ). Even one Merged pull request is a big deal in those moments. If all of this doesn't work. Let me know. I'm living in Berlin and I think I can find something for you if you want to relocate.

beeboop 11y ago
If a job candidate told me their previous team had a closed-culture and was unappreciative of their talents I would think it was the candidate who was difficult and thought too highly of himself. I would simply stick the lines of "The work they had me doing wasn't where my strengths really were. I think there was some miscommunication during the hiring process as to what the job really entailed". All of which is true in OP's case - it wasn't communicated to him how incompatible he would be with his team and he's not going to perform his best work there. This method doesn't place blame on anyone (important) and doesn't make you sound difficult or overly particular.