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I also wanted to say that I have worked with two Rails applications in that timeframe (2 weeks). One app being Rails 4 and the other Rails 3. I delivered more

by dviola 13y ago

I also wanted to say that I have worked with two Rails applications in that timeframe (2 weeks). One app being Rails 4 and the other Rails 3. I delivered more than one feature, not sure how many, maybe 3 or 4 features, without knowing the codebase at all, and the applications were government related applications, so they were large applications. I never worked with government applications before and that domain is new to me, I think I have a decent understanding of how Rails works so I'm not sure what the problem really was. They blamed me for asking questions, I did a bit of pairing with some members of their team. In the end, I was fired, and the excuse was that I wasn't productive, but how I'm going to be productive in a very short timeframe without them letting me learn about their application first? It's tough.

BSousa 13y ago
Look, I don't think the parent was attacking you directly, just explaining what may have happen from their perspective. Personally, unless you lied on the interview and were able to bullshit me into the job or you didn't shower, cursed every two minutes or made racists jokes/whatever, I would never fire anyone in the first 2 weeks. Having said that, no one here knows what happened except you and the company and Sam was providing some info of what may have happen from the employers perspective. The best thing for you to do is to take some time and think hard to see if there was something that you could have done for this not to happen. If so, learn and next time act on it, if you truly think that there wasn't much you could have done to change how this went, and the company is at fault, then don't stress about it. Go out, have a beer and you will find another job soon.