Today, i left a company that i just onboarded like 2 weeks ago. I never had a software engineering job that was as bad as this one….
First week, the managers had huge expectations for me to get ramped up right away. However, for my first week, i called out sick for two days, when i came back they were all in my ass, about my days off. From all of the jobs i had as a SFE, my team, or manager never bitched about my days off. This to me was a huge red flat that this company probably doesn't care about their employees, or has a high turn over rate (which im believing to be true).
Second red flag, the client made it a thing to get on cam when doing our standup, i complied, but kinda weird, and cringe ask.
Third red flag, i have been at this company for a total of 2 weeks in a half, i completed 2 tasks while i was there. Today, when the new ticket came on my lap, and when stand up came around, i told them i should have this ticket completed before the end of the sprint. For some reason, management didn't like my ETA, they assumed a task that i didn't give story points on (they don't even follow story points) should be done by a business day. Never once consulted with me on the scope of the implementation. This ticket was assigned to me by a product manager, without me understanding the scope of the changes. Mind you, this is my 2nd-3rd week and all ready… their shoving all of this work in my face. Usually if you're a new dev, you need time to get to understand how things flow, there was that lee way given for code analysis and such. You wont get work on your first sprint, but maybe on the next sprint you get a small task. This has always seemed to be the norm. On my first week, i had to complete a task despite being out for 2 days. Just rushed me right into it. :/
Idk if this is the norm for software engineering jobs ? but the fact that we don't have sprints to complete a given task, is mind boggling to me. They expected stories/cards/tickets to get done within 24 hours from it being in “in-progress”, thus practically DAILY. This was mind boggling to me. After coming to learn this, i messaged the higher ups telling them that i resign. Idk if this is professional, but within 20 minutes of sending the mail, my company email, teams, all got deactivated. I found this to be kinda unprofessional.
While i was there i fixed 2 bugs with little supervision, so i guess i could feel proud about that lol.They wanted someone to be exploited by them, it wasn't going to be me. It kinda makes me now question, no wonder why this position was open in the first place lol, nobody wants to work there.
Does this sound like bad company culture ? is this normal for temp to hire contracts ? maybe im just too entitled….btw this company was a start up, and not an enterprise. Either way, i could find another job, no biggie. but curious if anyone thinks this is the norm for agile development as a SFE ?
Either way, companies that are hiring, are hiring for a good reason. Good developers don't leave a good job unless company culture sucks so bad. Thats just my thinking.