reminds me of one ex-colleague - we worked at an outsourcing firm. It’s a place where you get a paycheck nothing more - the basic course of action is to do everything at half speed because your coke-loving managers will dump more shit to do otherwise. Then comes this lady - first big job opportunity and shit - she was hyperactive overachiever who stayed late and undermined literally anyone by pointing out that anything could be do better and FASTER. And the management fucking loved it. Then she got promoted way over her head and started blaming everyone else for lack of results that were built upon unrealistic expectations she established. Burned out a quarter into her promotion and quit.
it would’ve been if it was regular tech product company. The aforementioned company used to do shit like Tinder for doctors and mental health chatbots that literally just use ELIZA but cost 100k. People who say modern AI startups are grifters ain’t seen the real shit.
Working in outsourcing is basically biding your time in-between jobs where you actually do shit. You either start there and go elsewhere as soon as you get a portfolio strong enough to get noticed or go back because you need money and this cool startup fell apart. Most of the time - the outsourcing company is not even about software development or anything - it’s just money laundering where folks do some basic apps so it seems legit but it is just to move money in-between offshore accounts. Because of that there is almost an informal agreement that we’re all there from paycheck to paycheck until something better comes up so any time someone who actually wants to work shows up and starts making noise - it’s not good.
reminds me of one ex-colleague - we worked at an outsourcing firm. It’s a place where you get a paycheck nothing more - the basic course of action is to do everything at half speed because your coke-loving managers will dump more shit to do otherwise. Then comes this lady - first big job opportunity and shit - she was hyperactive overachiever who stayed late and undermined literally anyone by pointing out that anything could be do better and FASTER. And the management fucking loved it. Then she got promoted way over her head and started blaming everyone else for lack of results that were built upon unrealistic expectations she established. Burned out a quarter into her promotion and quit.
I mean.
It sounds like everyone else actually was the problem.
it would’ve been if it was regular tech product company. The aforementioned company used to do shit like Tinder for doctors and mental health chatbots that literally just use ELIZA but cost 100k. People who say modern AI startups are grifters ain’t seen the real shit.
Some companies actively disincentivize liking the company on a basic level. Outsourcing firms tend to heavily be that way.
Working in outsourcing is basically biding your time in-between jobs where you actually do shit. You either start there and go elsewhere as soon as you get a portfolio strong enough to get noticed or go back because you need money and this cool startup fell apart. Most of the time - the outsourcing company is not even about software development or anything - it’s just money laundering where folks do some basic apps so it seems legit but it is just to move money in-between offshore accounts. Because of that there is almost an informal agreement that we’re all there from paycheck to paycheck until something better comes up so any time someone who actually wants to work shows up and starts making noise - it’s not good.