Not from an ethical perspective, but from a personal one - I do regret putting so much effort into a past project that to me looked like it had a lot of potenti

Not from an ethical perspective, but from a personal one - I do regret putting so much effort into a past project that to me looked like it had a lot of potential to move things. There were lots of open questions, not only tech-wise, but also business-wise that made me really anxious (in both senses) to get to work on them. So I pushed the stakeholders to discover what they wanted. I asked for definitions of terms, clarification on business language, workshops to figure out what it is my software was supposed to improve, what problems it was supposed to solve. I sat down with them and explained Agile from A to Z while also writing code, reviewing code, writing CI/CD pipelines, talking to other teams about architecture, and generally putting in work wherever it was useful - and that was everywhere. Then a week before my 3 month trial period was up, I was told to clear my desk until the end of the day because that was not what the company was looking for. End of story. I don't regret doing everything I did, but I do regret not playing it smart politically and doing it out in the open.