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Not me, but one of my favourites would be when a guy joined our team. We were an agency and he’d been hired by the client to eventually take over. On the first
by aidos 7y ago
Not me, but one of my favourites would be when a guy joined our team. We were an agency and he’d been hired by the client to eventually take over. On the first morning I walked him through the codebase and showed him how it all worked, how to extend it etc. After a while I said “any questions?” He replied, “yeah, just one - am I meant to be a developer?”
Turned out that when the startup had brought him in as CTO they failed to mention that he was eventually going to be the sole developer.
- weka 7y agoGotta ask -- how did the next few weeks/months pan out?
- aidos 7y agoTo his credit he just kinda sucked it up and got on with it. I was happy because eventually I didn’t have to work on it anymore. Surprisingly, all the money they wasted on buying rack servers and Oracle enterprise licences didn’t net them more than 10 visitors a day and it feel apart. Once it all went pop, him and I crossed paths on other projects too, got to trade stories about the absurdity of it all.
- jawilson2 7y agoSo he was the OTO - Only Technical Officer
- TheRealDunkirk 7y agoHe got catfished. I'm feeling it, because I was recently catfished.
- stanleydrew 7y agoWhat does catfished mean in this context? Mislead into a role you aren't suited for?
- pault 7y agoAccepting a job offer based on a false representation. Usually by offering you an inflated title and promising responsibilities and opportunities you won't actually have.
- Double_a_92 7y agoLike when you get the Big Data Analyst job, but you are actually supposed to create plots from Excel data and put them in some sales Powerpoint...
- linuxftw 7y agoOh, that sounds so brutal. Had no idea this was a thing that happened to people. I would-first week quit.
- komali2 7y agoMy buddy quit a senior developer role day 1 at Walmart labs because they sat him down and presented him with the task of doing nothing but technical writing.
- kevstev 7y agoI worked there, I find this story hard to believe, though I left after Dion/Ben left, and the paypal mafia came in with their button downs tucked into their khaki's, and Jira became more important than actual technology, and the culture was taking a nosedive fast. Still, I can't imagine the culture falling that far in two years. Their was tons of meaty dev work being done. And day 1? Maybe they were just trying to ease him into the team? This might have been an effective Mr. Miyagi type move to help him get a greater understanding of how all the pieces work together. This story smells bad, I would be interested to hear more details.
- komali2 7y agoThere was tons of exciting work being done, apparently. Lots of promise of opportunities to plug away on a hot react frontend, scores of talented teams that sort of thing. I'm sure it is happening like that. But they were plugging holes as fast as they could with contract recruiters that were throwing whatever would stick. I didn't even get to meet my team before I had an offer in hand. From mine and his experience, whatever department that was (an ecommerce frontend), seems chaotic, with massive turnover.