A friend of mine was hired as a back-end dev. When he started they told him they'd rather need some urgent front-end tasks to be done, which was clearly not his

A friend of mine was hired as a back-end dev. When he started they told him they'd rather need some urgent front-end tasks to be done, which was clearly not his strength and he never lied about it, so he gave his best shot. Then on the last day of his probation month they told him he was not good enough and let him go. I'm thinking this might have been a similar case...