[bluefirebrand]

I was fired "without cause" a little over a year ago. I know it wasn't workforce reduction because the company was hiring for my team at the same time. There's a chance I even was part of an interview for my replacement.

Weird to me that I was trusted with interviewing around the same time, but cut loose. No warnings about performance or anything else of the sort. And since it was "without cause", no reasoning was given.

I suspect I was just unpopular with my managers, and I was maybe too vocal about my issues with the codebase.

Anyways, I got a new job and got promoted to team lead 5 months after starting there. My managers and even the VP of my department have given me great reviews.

Sometimes it really just is your environment.