Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by throwawaybcknd 683 days ago
> several times in the past few years?

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.

1 comments

Maybe you should learn some front end and avoid the problem altogether?
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).
What if you don't want to? Being fired form a bait-and-switch shithole is a blessing in disguise.
Yeah, in that situation, it's better to get out as quickly as possible. I want to avoid getting into that situation, though.
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.