"Stupidest" thing you have done related to your career
Let's see who has done the most idiotic thing in their career ! I will go first - let's see if anybody can beat mine š³ In a previous gig, I told my director that I have accepted an offer even before the H1 transfer to the new company had even started ! This was right before they were to decide on my promotion and before some RSUs were about to vest ! Had the most tensed 3-4 weeks (until H1 transfer completed) and a few sleepless nights. To this day, I can't figure out why and how I blurted this out š
Accepted a role within the company that was new, without clear goals and guidelines, the US counterparts hated it but it looked like a great leap opp to build a practice is Europe from the ground up, nice senior title too. After 8 months of torture, no proper leadership support they re-orged my role and I had to move into a different one. While I donāt like regretting things I do feel I lost a year in my career.
I actually like roles without clear goals and guidelines. This is where you make your mark as an engineer leader to define the job however you want.
Nothing is more stressful than a disorganized company with bad leadership. Iād rather have a manager yelling at me all day.
in no particular order. didnāt start the US green card application sooner. stayed at a job too long. took a job with extremely long commute and hated every day of it. didnāt take a health issue seriously. didnāt study harder in college.
I got a job in some small hedge fund in nyc. They asked for a drugtest. I viewed this as a total violation of privacy. Smoked up with my friends and then wrote an email where I told them that I donāt subscribe to Nixon and Reaganās policies and they should probably hire someone else.
I am a PhD and I selected an established company over another promising internet company simply because the former have more PHDs as my colleagues...the most stupid decision i have made beside getting a PHD in the first place :(
Why'd you get the PhD? And in what?
Work your ass off then change team during annual rating and comp reward.
I was happy at another company and I was fooled by Uber into joininig them - had the worst 8 months of life - lost a lot , if I had stayed at the other company I would have been a lot more richer and mentally stronger .
What was bad about it exactly? I'm sure a lots of us are in a similar situation, my job is pretty good but have been approached by uber. Uber guys here make out as if it is utopia...
Pro tip: Find some people in your network that have left the company you are considering joining. Uber recruiters way overplay the upside and downplay the cultural issues.
Said a single word of criticism about the company.
Commitment issue?
I joined a company and saw red flags on day 1. Should have gone back to my old job. But no - I didnāt want to feel like a quitter - and it took a long time to get me looking for something better.
Stayed at a company I hated for too long
How long do you consider "too long" because I'm in that situation right now as well.
How long did you stay at Uber?