Comment by kwanbix

Comment by kwanbix 10 days ago

Tell me about it. I had just accepted a position at Company A when Company B came in with what seemed like a much better offer: full-time employment instead of a contract, higher pay, and equity. So, I left Company A and joined Company B.

From the start, my boss at Company B was very dismissive, with very little interaction with me. Not because I didn't approached him or because distance (we sited one desk appart).

Then, despite a very positive interview with him, he quickly decided I wasn't a 'fit" and at the two-month mark, he let me go, citing my 'lack of Data Science expertise' as the reason.

This happened even though the two major stakeholders, for whom I was doing 90% of the work, were super happy (as happy as you can be in two and a half months of work) with my performance.

The situation was frustrating. My role wasn’t to be a Data Scientist. It was just two and a half months into the job (the first being holiday-heavy, with half the team out), and I was making good progress.

jimberlage 10 days ago

Sounds like there were three major stakeholders in your work at Company B.

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kwanbix 9 days ago

Sure, my boss was a major stakeholder. But he never complained about anything untill the last moment when he brought up the "data scientist" bs. So it is not like I didn't do anything that he asked me to do or that the stakeholders asked me to do. 99.9% of our interaction was our weekly 1:1 and like I said, he never complained.

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- kshacker 9 days ago
  
  Been there, done that. And sorry for the long anecdote.
  This was not a new job, but I got re-orged. There were a bunch of personnel changes and my manager's manager was also new in the role, but he was an old hand in the product we were building. The grand-manager controlled everything, and my manager did not have much say (at least in the beginning). 100% of our interaction was our 1:1s where he will either defer to his manager, or say "you are senior enough to manage this decision". Zero decision making.
  Then one fine day he blew up at me saying "I did not do any work". He "watched my emails and slack conversations and did not get a feeling I was working". Long story here which I will omit. When we finished the meeting, which was in a conference room, I did not exit the conference room until I had reached out to a couple of teams who were hiring. I left shortly thereafter.
  
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  kwanbix 9 days ago
  
  Yeah, some people are asses.
  I know of one "Tech Lead" whose only hability was to suck it up.
  He is now CTO or something like that. I really don't get it.
  
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