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You don't owe anything to a bad situation which treats you, the individual, poorly. If someone says they're a senior and they're hired into a senior position b
by onion2k 4y ago
You don't owe anything to a bad situation which treats you, the individual, poorly.
If someone says they're a senior and they're hired into a senior position but then it turns out that they're not really capable of doing the job of a senior that isn't the company's fault. Those are the people who companies are filtering out when they reject resumes with lots of short jobs.
The false negatives of people who left roles because the companies were bad are unfortunate but probably a lot less common.
- ravenstine 4y agoUh, what? Whether someone is capable of doing a job is totally up to the employer. Yes, one has to self assess to an extent and apply to realistic roles, but for the most part the blame doesn't lie on the individual. A senior position at one role may mean something totally different from a senior position at another company. Is it really someone's fault that they were a senior engineer at BrownGrassCo and applied for a senior position at GreenGrassCo only to find out that their definition of "senior" more closely resembles something like a team lead with managerial tasks their previous position didn't involve at all?
- pc86 4y agoThis reminds me of that wojack meme with the normal distribution. There are certainly people on the left side of the curve who just can't operate at a senior level. Nothing wrong with that, most projects need a solid mid-level or two who can chug through well-scoped tickets. They might have a lot of short stints on their resume. But on the right side of the curve are the really great engineers who recognize a situation as bad pretty quickly, and are able to easily get another role. You can't the difference between these two based on the resume, which is why I try to talk to all of them if I can.