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If I were the OP I would take this site down, and re-think. Any prospective company that is looking to hire you in the future is going to google & see this. It

If I were the OP I would take this site down, and re-think. Any prospective company that is looking to hire you in the future is going to google & see this. It does not reflect well.

rcfox 4y ago
It's like the author is looking for more bullet points to add to the website. "I made a website to complain to the world about Spotify's management, and Spotify somehow held that against me."
- peteradio 4y ago
  Well, no, he created the website after being banned for life.
honkdaddy 4y ago
Agreed. OP didn't like the characterization of being a "bad culture fit", but to me, spending multiple hours to build a site, purchasing a domain name, and promoting it all over the internet is exactly the kind of pettiness and poor judgement which _would_ make a bad culture fit. I would never want to work with someone who would be willing to write up public manifestos about petty coworker drama. OP was definitely mistreated, but the mature and correct thing to do is to move on and find other work. Use it as a story for the "conflict at work" question in an interview, but otherwise, put it behind you.
- batch12 4y ago
  It's also been more than a year since these events and OP just registered the domain three days ago. Reading quoted chats in addition to the OPs statement "At this point these conversations felt so weird that I started screenshotting the strangest ones" makes me think they are still holding onto these screenshots. I think it's time to move on.
  - Aeolun 4y ago
    > I think it's time to move on. They presumably think so as well since they seem to be in therapy.
user_7832 4y ago
I don't really see how this looks bad for OP. If anything he(?) looks like a very capable engineer with strong technical skills. (I hope your username trollied isn't in bad faith.)
- Maro 4y ago
  Which part of the story paints the OP as a capable engineer?
  - user_7832 4y ago
    The multiple facts that a)both the Product Manager and team were surprised, b)another person from another team reached out pretty soon to try to take OP on their team (having worked with op in the past) And c) recruiters who kept reaching out, AND op kept passing interviews till the HR part
    - natly 4y ago
      Recruiters reaching out barely means anything, they're usually just automated
      - user_7832 4y ago
        Yeah but unless I'm mistaken the technical interviews aren't done by bots but humans Edit: I kinda see your point, my c point is more of 1 than 2 points in that sense
    - Sebb767 4y ago
      > a)both the Product Manager and team were surprised, Which doesn't mean much. I try to avoid privately siding against anyone in my company, too. It's entirely possible that his colleagues did the same and he interpreted it as siding with him. They might also haven't known the full details of the conflict. > b)another person from another team reached out pretty soon to try to take OP on their team (having worked with op in the past) Who most likely did not know about the conflict, either. > c) recruiters who kept reaching out, AND op kept passing interviews till the HR part Passing interviews is a skill not necessarily related to job performance, as discussed here quite often. On the other hand, we know for a fact that he clearly did not handle this conflict well, and that Spotify decided not to hire him again (which might be unfair or might be due to their side of the story being different - we don't know). We also only have his impression of the impression of his colleagues for work performance and the fact that he choose to publicly post this & name the company, despite clearly not being perfectly in the right. Not an ideal candidate in my view, but, as they say, you need to fit to the company culture - so feel free to hire him :)
natly 4y ago
He should at least remove his from the bottom of the site (so it won't be attached to googling his name). It can still act as bad press for spotify and as a vehicle for getting a new job if his name isn't there (it can just be pseudo anonymous by only revealing his name if a company is interested).

If I were the OP I would take this site down, and re-think. Any prospective company that is looking to hire you in the future is going to google & see this. It does not reflect well.

rcfox 4y ago

It's like the author is looking for more bullet points to add to the website. "I made a website to complain to the world about Spotify's management, and Spotify somehow held that against me."

peteradio 4y ago
Well, no, he created the website after being banned for life.

honkdaddy 4y ago

Agreed. OP didn't like the characterization of being a "bad culture fit", but to me, spending multiple hours to build a site, purchasing a domain name, and promoting it all over the internet is exactly the kind of pettiness and poor judgement which _would_ make a bad culture fit. I would never want to work with someone who would be willing to write up public manifestos about petty coworker drama. OP was definitely mistreated, but the mature and correct thing to do is to move on and find other work. Use it as a story for the "conflict at work" question in an interview, but otherwise, put it behind you.

batch12 4y ago
It's also been more than a year since these events and OP just registered the domain three days ago. Reading quoted chats in addition to the OPs statement "At this point these conversations felt so weird that I started screenshotting the strangest ones" makes me think they are still holding onto these screenshots. I think it's time to move on.
- Aeolun 4y ago
  > I think it's time to move on. They presumably think so as well since they seem to be in therapy.

user_7832 4y ago

I don't really see how this looks bad for OP. If anything he(?) looks like a very capable engineer with strong technical skills. (I hope your username trollied isn't in bad faith.)

Maro 4y ago
Which part of the story paints the OP as a capable engineer?
- user_7832 4y ago
  The multiple facts that a)both the Product Manager and team were surprised, b)another person from another team reached out pretty soon to try to take OP on their team (having worked with op in the past) And c) recruiters who kept reaching out, AND op kept passing interviews till the HR part
  - natly 4y ago
    Recruiters reaching out barely means anything, they're usually just automated
    - user_7832 4y ago
      Yeah but unless I'm mistaken the technical interviews aren't done by bots but humans Edit: I kinda see your point, my c point is more of 1 than 2 points in that sense
  - Sebb767 4y ago
    > a)both the Product Manager and team were surprised, Which doesn't mean much. I try to avoid privately siding against anyone in my company, too. It's entirely possible that his colleagues did the same and he interpreted it as siding with him. They might also haven't known the full details of the conflict. > b)another person from another team reached out pretty soon to try to take OP on their team (having worked with op in the past) Who most likely did not know about the conflict, either. > c) recruiters who kept reaching out, AND op kept passing interviews till the HR part Passing interviews is a skill not necessarily related to job performance, as discussed here quite often. On the other hand, we know for a fact that he clearly did not handle this conflict well, and that Spotify decided not to hire him again (which might be unfair or might be due to their side of the story being different - we don't know). We also only have his impression of the impression of his colleagues for work performance and the fact that he choose to publicly post this & name the company, despite clearly not being perfectly in the right. Not an ideal candidate in my view, but, as they say, you need to fit to the company culture - so feel free to hire him :)

natly 4y ago

He should at least remove his from the bottom of the site (so it won't be attached to googling his name). It can still act as bad press for spotify and as a vehicle for getting a new job if his name isn't there (it can just be pseudo anonymous by only revealing his name if a company is interested).