What's the worst mistake you made at work ⁉️
I'll go first.
At my first job right after school, I was too over confident, kind of egomaniac and coded like a monkey. I would finish 1 feature in a week. Did not think about big picture or side cases at all. I thought if I worked 100+ hours a week I would get praised and a raise. Treated senior’s like shit ( really sorry), ignored all feedback. Code was in C/C++. Manager was ok with it as he looked good in front of higher ups and thought he found a Unicorn Programmer. No one opposed, people were too busy or did’t care 🤷♂️
1 year down the line, bugs started popping up, on call after on call, edge cases blew up 😬my performance suffered😥. My manager moved me to a different team citing my performance and he jumped ship. Was too young to realize what was going on.
Legend is they had to hire 7 new people, 3 Senior programmers to fix the mess. Team lead quit, and anyone new was like : what the fuck this guy did 😂 what was he thinking ! Took them more than a year to bring all back to normal, everything I had done line by line was scrutinized and rewritten. Had to quit, I was famous in entire Org.
Other than that, luckily everywhere I’ve worked has had super good CICD, have written way less code and have been good (touchwood).
Blind Tax: 110 CAD
YOE: 8
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My biggest mistake was thinking HR was there to protect employees and filing a complaint against a VP. HR made sure to document zero wrongdoing and VP became an even bigger asshole out for revenge. Yes, at Google. Yes, I took the L and switched teams before my perf suffered.