| When you try to transfer, your boss puts in a report to HR about how you're such a bad employee (clearly the bosses are incentivized to do this, to keep employees from internally transferring.) Once that happens you're on the clock- you're going to get fired, and they are just building a case against you. Your boss and HR will become increasingly hostile (while HR pretends to be there to "help" and "mediate" but actually is working against you filling your file with bullshit that comes from your boss) HR will start actively gas lighting you. The negative reports that are suddenly appearing in your file (eg: a previous boss who gave you a good review suddenly has criticized you in the file that only HR can see... why would he lie to you?) They want you to think you're at fault for anting to work for a non-abusive boss. Eventually they fire you and give you a meager severance check which is attached to a contract you sign where you promise to never sue them. I think it's only a matter of time. But it is a hostile work environment, my rights were violated regularly, and as far as I'm concerned, the company should be shut down. No engineer with self esteem should work there. But people seem to think that it's glamerous because of the name and they don't know that it is better elsewhere. I think their hiring process is tuned to find people who will fall for their mantras. The culture is VERY cult like. Much more than Microsoft or Apple in this regard. |
I came back from my country after a 3 week vacation and during my 1:1 with my manager, she started criticizing things which she hardly ever mentioned. And then, a few weeks later, she and her manager pulled me aside and put me in a program where I would have to do much more difficult work (PIP) to save my job.
The PIP document was this scandalous piece of paper. Things which were a complete non-issue a few months back were made a huge deal. I had a seizure attack a few months before all this and my manager was well aware of my mental situation. Inspite of all this, she instrumented all this. I wouldn't blame here. She did this to save her own ass I guess. You've got to eat someone else's career to move yours ahead.
Bottom line is I wasn't able to cope up with the PIP work. I was made to resign and being an H-1B worker, I had to find a job to save my status. My health issues made me spiral into a depression and today I'm in a substandard job.