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What details would you like to know?

fprotthetarball 11y ago
- Do you get along with your coworkers? - Where are your shortcomings? - Can you actually program? - Are you misunderstanding requirements?
- grover_hartmann 11y ago
  - There are times I get along with my coworkers, which happens to be most of the time, there are times I don't. - I don't know, I feel performance tends to be one of my problems, especially when working under pressure and being stressed / burned. I hate working under pressure, and when clients have unrealistic expectations. I don't mind deadlines if they are realistic. - Yes, but I tend to get stuck a lot, I try to solve problems and most of the time I can solve them, but it takes time, and what frustrates me the most is when clients don't understand that writing code takes time, and they insist, several times per day... with emails: "How it's going?" and so on, then they might get rude, etc. This is what frustrates me the most, unfortunately many managers and clients don't understand that writing code is hard work and when I'm taking more than a week on a task they fire me. - No, if I misunderstand something I speak immediately.
  - caruizdiaz 11y ago
    It looks like you are victimizing yourself more than you should. I was fired from my first serious job, and I felt terrible, but I realized it was my fault and I worked my ass off to eliminate (or lessen) the weaknesses I know (note the tense) I have. "Hard work beats talent". Discipline is what makes you great, so work towards getting it.
japhyr 11y ago
What client goals are you not meeting?
- grover_hartmann 11y ago
  I don't know, they tend to be vague, but performance comes to mind. They sent me this email today which is really vague: "Given the urgency of the project, and the communication problems, I don't think this is a good first Company project for you. I removed you from the project. So I can make sure you're put in a better position, what's the ideal project for you?"
  - nitramafve 11y ago
    Why did they send this to you over email? Are you in a separate time zone, deaf or something else? Seems like it would be an odd thing to discuss over email.
    - grover_hartmann 11y ago
      Yes, we are in a separate timezone, and some of their developers are too. This was remote work.
    - mod 11y ago
      FWIW I've worked in places where this would be standard to communicate over email, particularly if it's not that big of a deal (as in, we have plenty of other projects). We don't really know the details of how the rejection even took place--maybe he asked for it that project, maybe he was on it and performed poorly, etc.
  - japhyr 11y ago
    Can you say a little more about the communication problems? Problems in communication can exacerbate any other problems, to the point that people would rather not work with you than sort out the issues. Clear communication is a requirement before any other issue can be addressed.

- Do you get along with your coworkers? - Where are your shortcomings? - Can you actually program? - Are you misunderstanding requirements?

grover_hartmann 11y ago
- There are times I get along with my coworkers, which happens to be most of the time, there are times I don't. - I don't know, I feel performance tends to be one of my problems, especially when working under pressure and being stressed / burned. I hate working under pressure, and when clients have unrealistic expectations. I don't mind deadlines if they are realistic. - Yes, but I tend to get stuck a lot, I try to solve problems and most of the time I can solve them, but it takes time, and what frustrates me the most is when clients don't understand that writing code takes time, and they insist, several times per day... with emails: "How it's going?" and so on, then they might get rude, etc. This is what frustrates me the most, unfortunately many managers and clients don't understand that writing code is hard work and when I'm taking more than a week on a task they fire me. - No, if I misunderstand something I speak immediately.
- caruizdiaz 11y ago
  It looks like you are victimizing yourself more than you should. I was fired from my first serious job, and I felt terrible, but I realized it was my fault and I worked my ass off to eliminate (or lessen) the weaknesses I know (note the tense) I have. "Hard work beats talent". Discipline is what makes you great, so work towards getting it.

japhyr 11y ago

What client goals are you not meeting?

grover_hartmann 11y ago
I don't know, they tend to be vague, but performance comes to mind. They sent me this email today which is really vague: "Given the urgency of the project, and the communication problems, I don't think this is a good first Company project for you. I removed you from the project. So I can make sure you're put in a better position, what's the ideal project for you?"
- nitramafve 11y ago
  Why did they send this to you over email? Are you in a separate time zone, deaf or something else? Seems like it would be an odd thing to discuss over email.
  - grover_hartmann 11y ago
    Yes, we are in a separate timezone, and some of their developers are too. This was remote work.
  - mod 11y ago
    FWIW I've worked in places where this would be standard to communicate over email, particularly if it's not that big of a deal (as in, we have plenty of other projects). We don't really know the details of how the rejection even took place--maybe he asked for it that project, maybe he was on it and performed poorly, etc.
- japhyr 11y ago
  Can you say a little more about the communication problems? Problems in communication can exacerbate any other problems, to the point that people would rather not work with you than sort out the issues. Clear communication is a requirement before any other issue can be addressed.