[golondon]

I had pretty similar story when I was at Apple, as an SRE. I haven't been in the company for long time, so just before he was making prep for putting me on PIP, handed my resignation, with a salary and title bump.

Sometimes you just join to a company thinking "It's X at the end of the day, how bad it could be?", from the first hand experience I can say it can be absolutely terrible. So if you directly interview with the team you're going to work with, like you do in Apple, and if you didn't feel like you would enjoy working with the people you saw in the loop, trust that feeling. It possibly tells you the truth.