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While I can empathize with being underappreciated as an engineer, I struggle to understand how you attracted all these bad experiences? Is this more common whe
by grudg3 3y ago
While I can empathize with being underappreciated as an engineer, I struggle to understand how you attracted all these bad experiences?
Is this more common when working at startups? Is it more common when working in US? Are you leaving out parts of the story that gets you in these situations?
I'm legitimately curious, I've been working in tech for close to 17 years and have had my share of bad experiences but have mostly managed to avoid these crazy stories and have always had a good recommendation from the previous job as I tried not to burn bridges.
- nine_zeros 3y agoGood question. In the US, greed is pathological. CEOs (and management for that matter) think that their entire job is only to hire people. Once they hire people, they expect work to be done automatically. It's so weird that they will set targets for 3 months and expect it to happen magically. If it doesn't happen, it looks bad for their image and they start firing people. Weird culture! But that's why nobody respects corporate hierarchy.
- andomiazzz662 3y agoNo, this is not really a normal work culture in the US. It is definitely something that is prevalent in the startup space, but really that has a lot more to do with the low barrier to entry rather than the country they are located in. There are companies that will let you work yourself to death all over the world. At a normal established company, these sorts of expectations would lead to these same sorts of failures, in which case you actually don't typically fail upwards. Management this bad doesn't typically stay management for that long at profitable companies because they introduce an enormous amount of risk.