Sounds like the job just treated devs as replaceable, identical "units", but the author comes across as an individual. The management would hate any sign of life from the "units".
"We'll get a new front-end resource soon".
"We're opening two more backfills for backend resources".
"We need a front-end resource to unblock this ticket".
I have a interview on Monday which I will decline. Literally copy pasting from their meeting invite - "Request to panel-Please Take Resource Snapshot along with Any ID Proof and share the Feedback along with IRF post completion of interview."
when i spent not quite a year working for (non AWS) Amazon, a document was leaked that such treatment was actually business plan. It was beyond obvious before the document was leaked.
I contrasted the structure of several years of Apple engineering with the insanity of this business plan, which put roughly a dozen layers of non technical middle managers above our team of people with pretty hardcore technical degrees and who were dependable and capable, yet who were treated like fungible assets.
I became resolute to quit as soon as possible...but it DID take months to believe my perceptions of the stupidity were valid.
That's pretty much kitchen rotations 101. If you ever wonder why your food isn't cooked right, this is why. They always have new people having to reacclimate to a new kitchen on a regular basis. And then they claim they can't find anyone decent to do the job. It's absolutely a lie on their parts.
They use the probationary period laws incorrectly to fire people they don't like for literally any reason, even if it might be discrimination, cause they can just claim "no reason, I just don't like you."
It's fucking amazing how much these motherfuckers will screw with people too. I've been kept on for jobs until the last day of my probation, or a week away, or a month away... and let go for 'no reason'.
I would love to know the reason. Perhaps I can do something about it. But nope... if you even insist on getting some truth from these people... they just start fighting you. Sometimes even physically.
I have no fucking clue what is wrong with them, or me if that's the case at this point.
Anyone looking to get into the 'normal' job market best avoid the kitchen industry. It's going nuclear, slowly.
I'm getting out of the industry as fast as possible. BUT... Until I have enough money saved aside to do just that, I have to keep working in it... and keep getting my record of employment tarnished more and more because of their dumb bullshit.
I wish I could just sue them all. Can't though. They are legal, even if evil.
Even in a lot of product based companies tbh. I had to push quite a bit to get people to stop referring to SWEs as "resources"..