So have you been laid off or fired several times in the past few years? Do they tell you its because you can't do frontend or is it for performance issues? I feel like there's some key information missing here.
The OP fully reports a Kafkan maze of being hired for a job, and then asked to perform a completely different job; having a low performance because, well, duh; and then we expect him to explain his low performance?
Several times in the past fifteen years, but it was that I got fired or quit.
> Do they tell you its because you can't do frontend or is it for performance issues?
The times it was involuntary, it was because I got moved to doing front-end stuff, my performance tanked, I told my manager or whoever was relevant, and sometimes I hear "Just bear with it a minute" and sometimes I hear things like I described above. This was the first time I tried saying anything about it during the interview.
> I feel like there's some key information missing here.
I don't get it either, so at least there's that sanity check: I don't get what's going on because it doesn't make sense as presented. That was what the questions were: I'm certain there is something I'm missing, I tend to be socially oblivious sometimes. I do not get it.
Hell no. Why"? Should a anesthetist do he work of a surgeon? It's insane how this industry brainwashed people into becoming jack of all trades, master of none.
There's a difference between becoming incredibly good at frontend and knowing enough to get things done and be a productive member of a team (ie, not get fired like the OP).
I know "some front end". Some things I have picked up like I always knew them, some things required study, some things I'm not going to be good at, and at this point, I'm old enough to know the difference.
The OP fully reports a Kafkan maze of being hired for a job, and then asked to perform a completely different job; having a low performance because, well, duh; and then we expect him to explain his low performance?