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Ironically enough, it's always been the same people who snap about being bothered with questions, who are the first to go running for help when they are confuse

by whack 10y ago

Ironically enough, it's always been the same people who snap about being bothered with questions, who are the first to go running for help when they are confused by something outside their domain of expertise. That's been my experience at least. My very first job was especially bad. There was an entire culture built up where tech leads and senior engineers would never answer chats/emails sent by junior engineers. If you really needed a clarification, you had to hunt them down in their cube, where if you're lucky, they would answer your question without any condescension. At my very first performance review, I was even dinged for "asking too many questions." At the time, I thought there was something wrong with me. Looking back, the reason why I had to ask so many questions was because there was zero documentation, the code base was horrific, and we were using stone age tooling. My only regret is that I hadn't left even earlier than I did.

knicholes 10y ago
I've had a similar experience where I joined a new company, worked for four weeks, had a performance review, and was told that I had lost the confidence of my coworkers and if I don't improve my productivity, I'd have to be let go in a month. I quit immediately. I was contributing from day one. I had introduced unit tests to their code. I implemented a Stripe integration for subscriptions. I added new features. After receiving one of my questions, the senior dev would take a long hard look at me, thinking of the dickest thing to say, then he'd say it. The responses were always condescending and rarely helpful. I became afraid to interact with him. No matter what I did, I did it the wrong way. He didn't offer solutions, just criticism. When I mentioned that working with this guy was incredibly difficult, my employer said that he understands, but this individual is so good at what he does, it's just something they'll have to deal with. Life is too short to deal with these toxic individuals.

by whack 10y ago

knicholes 10y ago

I've had a similar experience where I joined a new company, worked for four weeks, had a performance review, and was told that I had lost the confidence of my coworkers and if I don't improve my productivity, I'd have to be let go in a month. I quit immediately. I was contributing from day one. I had introduced unit tests to their code. I implemented a Stripe integration for subscriptions. I added new features. After receiving one of my questions, the senior dev would take a long hard look at me, thinking of the dickest thing to say, then he'd say it. The responses were always condescending and rarely helpful. I became afraid to interact with him. No matter what I did, I did it the wrong way. He didn't offer solutions, just criticism. When I mentioned that working with this guy was incredibly difficult, my employer said that he understands, but this individual is so good at what he does, it's just something they'll have to deal with. Life is too short to deal with these toxic individuals.