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Cases like these happen at companies at all levels. Massive companies such as Amazon and especially at startups, where roles are not as defined. After only two

Cases like these happen at companies at all levels. Massive companies such as Amazon and especially at startups, where roles are not as defined. After only two months at my current role, I was ready to leave. Was catfished into a role which was not what I interviewed for. Management agrees that I am getting short-changed, but is unwilling to let me change organizations. Sadly, I continue to stay here, after over a year, due to the COVID closures affecting my plans.

Hadriel 5y ago
Yeah it's the same exact thing at Meta/FB lol
oblio 5y ago
The funky thing is the different stigma attached to equivalent situations. You embellish your CV as an individual and you overdo it = possible catastrophe. Companies constantly embellishing job postings = just a regular Tuesday. I'm having a really hard time remembering a job where the job descriptions really matched the day to day activities, and I've worked for ~10 companies, big and small, from Asia, Europe, America.
behohippy 5y ago
> Was catfished into a role which was not what I interviewed for Why does Amazon do this? I've bailed out 3 times on interviews with them now because somehow the role they sold me on end up being completely different by the time you talk to the team members doing the actual job. It's a huge time waster for everyone involved.
- spike021 5y ago
  Heh something similar happened to me. Recruiter reached out, insisted role was on a special new team in SFO. I did the full interview cycle (on-site in Seattle, which I later learned is what they do if the role is in SEA..). It was for an awesome team and org, really up and coming. I get the congrats message that I’ll be getting an offer. Then find out it’s only for SEA. This is after the recruiter insisted it would be SFO because I didn’t want to relocate for various reasons. Ah so that’s why they flew me to Seattle.. lol. Ended up being passed around a few orgs recruiters and took a role in sfo that I finally left after 20 months. Sigh.
  - behohippy 5y ago
    One of mine was similar. I got sold on a 100% remote role that turned into 9-5, 5 days a week in an office 350km away from where I live. I was really clear up front that relocation was not an option. I'm not sure if they ignored me, or just felt I'd be compelled to move.
- optymizer 5y ago
  I was hired as an Android developer. After 1 year, my manager called me on a Sunday afternoon, and asked me: "do you know HTML?". I said: "yes, who doesn't?". On Monday I was transferred to the web team to work on customer retention. From the business's point of view, they were trying to plug an urgent hole, from my career's point of view, I wanted to work on mobile Android apps. I moved back to an Android team in a month, which required VP-level approval.

Hadriel 5y ago

Yeah it's the same exact thing at Meta/FB lol

oblio 5y ago

The funky thing is the different stigma attached to equivalent situations. You embellish your CV as an individual and you overdo it = possible catastrophe. Companies constantly embellishing job postings = just a regular Tuesday. I'm having a really hard time remembering a job where the job descriptions really matched the day to day activities, and I've worked for ~10 companies, big and small, from Asia, Europe, America.

behohippy 5y ago

> Was catfished into a role which was not what I interviewed for Why does Amazon do this? I've bailed out 3 times on interviews with them now because somehow the role they sold me on end up being completely different by the time you talk to the team members doing the actual job. It's a huge time waster for everyone involved.

spike021 5y ago
Heh something similar happened to me. Recruiter reached out, insisted role was on a special new team in SFO. I did the full interview cycle (on-site in Seattle, which I later learned is what they do if the role is in SEA..). It was for an awesome team and org, really up and coming. I get the congrats message that I’ll be getting an offer. Then find out it’s only for SEA. This is after the recruiter insisted it would be SFO because I didn’t want to relocate for various reasons. Ah so that’s why they flew me to Seattle.. lol. Ended up being passed around a few orgs recruiters and took a role in sfo that I finally left after 20 months. Sigh.
- behohippy 5y ago
  One of mine was similar. I got sold on a 100% remote role that turned into 9-5, 5 days a week in an office 350km away from where I live. I was really clear up front that relocation was not an option. I'm not sure if they ignored me, or just felt I'd be compelled to move.
optymizer 5y ago
I was hired as an Android developer. After 1 year, my manager called me on a Sunday afternoon, and asked me: "do you know HTML?". I said: "yes, who doesn't?". On Monday I was transferred to the web team to work on customer retention. From the business's point of view, they were trying to plug an urgent hole, from my career's point of view, I wanted to work on mobile Android apps. I moved back to an Android team in a month, which required VP-level approval.