In 2018, I got an offer as a “System/Linux Engineer”. The interviews went great, salary was good, I though everything was going to be good. I started my first week to learn about their servers and systems, familiarized myself with everything. First thing first, working in IT is very very very broad, many different careers and positions. I was hired spesifically to handle their servers which all Linux based. Maintained their server needs, took care of the resources and kept them running smoothly.
It started to feel weird on the start of the 2nd week. They asked me to help then make the application by doing the coding, basically being a programmer. I told them that it's not what I'm specialized in and not capable of doing it. I do know some basics but that's about it. So they asked me if I was willing to learn to be a programmer, I said yes as long as you could give me time to learn. So I started. Literally the next week, after a freaking week of trying to learn about PHP and JS, they got angry and asked me “why can't you even build an app yet??”….after one freaking week..I was honestly shocked and was internally laughing about how absurd the situation was. At that very second I decided to fuck it and just quit. I told them to hire a real programmer instead of trapping people into their hidden agenda, left and went home. Later the same day, the HR lady messaged me about the 2 weeks of worth salary would be transfered. I just replied back “Ok” and that was it. I moved on and quicky landed another job the 2 weeks.
I still have no idea until now why people even do this?! It's wasting everyone's time.