When I was at WITCH a few years ago, I wanted to diversify from C++ and did a Java certification. My Associate Director gave me a "MA" ranking with a snarky remark that I need not try 'fancy' things like learning a new tech. Today I saw him on LinkedIn celebrating joining Express Scripts as a Senior Manager, which pays really well ~ CA$ 146K. Looks like his venture of individual contracting didn't work out well and he was forced to take a demotion. Had he stayed with that WITCH, he easily had been a Senior Director. His team was the most toxic team I ever worked in. They didn't want anyone outside their linguistic group to grow. They didn't want anyone technically good to excel. I am so glad that not just him, but his entired group is stuck in the quicksand of stagnation. I have shared enough details for them to identify themselves. And I have no qualms of doxing myself here. On your face! TC: CA $485K
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I did my internship in a WITCH company. On my first day I was asked to write a code to search within a document. Wrote a crappy code in Java - worked fine, just very suboptimal. I was praised as if I was the best programmer alive. Some of them are toxic, some not - but the technical quality is awful.
Why is everyone commenting so bitter? Happy for you OP to be able to develop yourself and keep learning.
Thx for your kind comments, mate! I get it that not everyone understands, but the people who do understand are the gems...
Move on.
The whole concept of creating a toxic environment to ensure your own success ends up polluting your own mind which causes your own defeat in one or another way. Only those succeed who relentlessly keep on walking. The ones who create hurdles for the others become so busy, that they fail to see themselves rotting away. That's enough Karma for me.
Op you and manager both desi?
Gotta live and let go Meta ☮️✌️
aye aye!!!