Golden rule :  
 Always be the senior you wished you had when you were junior

Consultant

Although I always say to freshers or new joiners explore the repo by yourself for 1-2 days then I will tell you after that .

Software Engineer

Yes, I have as well. I honestly didn't like the place. 
    I believe as we move up in senior positions, being humble is the the defacto for growth, you grow when you get into situations with the mindset to learn something,  it cannot happen with arrogance. 
   And being passionate about things you learnt is a way you always show by addressing junior engineer questions

I have gone through this idk about others but many may have gone through this phase when your manager or senior just tells you in some what inglorious manner

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Asking doubts as an freshman and junior

Software Developer

Asking doubts as an freshman and junior- Grapevine

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Hello folks,

A bit of a background about me:
Left a stable core PSU job to join tech consulting services of a consulting-cum-IT firm due to less learning and growth opportunities in PSU

Skip to present:
- Seniors with experience of 2 years or more in the team talk about tasks on a very high-level and distribute interesting tasks among themselves, shutting the door for me to do some interesting stuff
- Seniors are expecting me to perform exceedingly ( due to decent past academic background I guess) without doing much KT sessions and hand-holding.
- Seniors reprimanding me harshly (tbh this feels like bullying) for every tiny mistake and ultimately this is bringing my self confidence to the floor, trapping me in a vicious circle 
- Trying to learn from my mistakes and not to repeat them often, few concepts are tough to understand so I ask them twice or thrice but they always tell me not to ask the same question twice
- In a very sad mental state, rethinking my decision to quit a dignified stable job to serve like a slave for a bigtech client

Would seek your opinions on how I should adapt better or should I even do so?

Fresher feeling bad. Help him.

Hi all,
I am currently interning at a US medical device healthcare giant.
Its been close to 5 months I'm here. Till now I haven't been assigned any implementation tasks
All I get to do is dry runs, debugging and documentation

PPO is also not guaranteed. It's based on performance.
I feel very scared what would happen if I don't get the PPO. Apart from that, I feel shy asking help from seniors because
a) They are super busy. Always on meetings
b) I feel they would think I'm stupid for asking silly doubts

Even no proper KTs have been given. It's like F around and figure out.

Please advice me how to actually come out of this situation. This is my first corporate experience and I feel worried and scared each day

Need some genuine advice

feeling like I am literally in the worst phase of my life. Our company is taking ownership of an abroad project and those abroad folks are not supportive or even if they support us then they give little information so that we can't take ownership. so we freshers have to figure out everything, and now even after figuring out, my manager and higher management asks me anything with respect to the product(features, deployment, anything literally- it's a big & complex project) even though I am a fresher and don't even have the proper knowledge and then ask us to explain to them what we know, and it's literally frustrating to explain to every single guy every single time. Because the manager asks to prepare to explain to him and then to the higher manager and then whenever something is there they keep asking again and again to give a presentation or our ideas about it, but they don't even ask abroad folks when they are the one who is doing the work. I just feel like I can't keep up with this and I want to resign. How to say no to the manager for doing a particular work again and again or should I resign because I am feeling very low right now and still after 1 year it looks like I have wasted the time because I got to write code for maybe 5% and 90-95% feels like college presentation. Every time there's something and they ask the same thing 3-4 times, sometimes it would be give the x info or then y info and like this only  and because of that i can't do the real work or work on new features because the Indian manager and higher officials keep giving extra work which they should ask from US folks. What should I do please suggest

Frustrated from job

Application Engineer

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I want to understand if this is common for folks and is there a way to tackle it.

I have recently moved my career from Talent Acquisition to Product Management Internally in my organization. My New Manager has also very recently joined the team. I see him barely investing time in understanding the skillset I hold and whenever there's a time of taking some responsibilities he will give it to others. I have been doing some operational work for the past 1 month now, majorly with excel sheets and coordination. 

I want to start working as a Product Management Professional and not as an operational Guy !

Open to suggestions on how to take this up !

Early days as Product Management Professional

Product Manager

Hey, 

I am a SWE with 2 yrs exp. recently I found out that juniors in my team are being paid atleast 10% more than me. This thing has been bugging me so much that I setup a meeting with my manager but here’s the thing- I have no idea how to talk about this to my manager. I obviously think it’s unfair given how much more work I am doing. 
Can experienced people here please guide me on how to approach this meeting?

Thanks!

Junior coworker getting paid more than me.

I have recently joined a startup as an APM (My first PM role) and my manager is teaching me the bits and pieces of Product Management. The issue is, while he's helpful and experienced in this field, he sometimes talks to me in a very condescending way which kinda hurts me. I agree that I have a lot to learn and getting a job as an APM is a big thing, especially when you've been in a specialist role for all your life but I still don't get the point of patronizing your juniors. I'm trying to get better at writing documentation and specs but I get very disheartened after every spec review meeting I schedule with him.

Any tips for handling this? And what are some ways to get better at writing documentation and specs?

How to deal with a condescending manager?

Associate Product Manager

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I have recently joined a startup as an APM (My first PM role) and my manager is teaching me the bits and pieces of Product Management. The issue is, while he's helpful and experienced in this field, he sometimes talks to me in a very condescending way which kinda hurts me. I agree that I have a lot to learn and getting a job as an APM is a big thing, especially when you've been in a specialist role for all your life but I still don't get the point of patronizing your juniors. I'm trying to get better at writing documentation and specs but I get very disheartened after every spec review meeting I schedule with my manager. 

Any tips for handling this?

Hey guys, 
I have this weird anxiety whenever I'm not able to understand the work that is given to me or If I get too complicated work. 

Basically i'm not stressed even if my workload is high, as long as I know exactly what to do

And if I get very little workload but the work is very complicated, it stresses me out to the point where I don't feel hungry at all.

If I'm confident, i'm very confident and when I get stressed out, even simple problems look very complicated and makes my life hell.

Do any of you guys feel the same and if you do, how do you handle this weird nature

Weird office anxiety

So, my friend wanted to take up task with other team, his manager didn't want it. So the manager took him among the other team members and publicly humiliated him showcasing that he is worried as fuck about the task in hand(he was just excited) and that they are putting pressure on him(they weren't)

I started thinking, if this happened with me, I don't have a comeback, but I wouldn't wanna stay with a manager who uses his own people to get ahead. Would you?

If your manager used you as a scapegoat in a situation, would you still continue in the job?

Becoming too much friendly and little close with colleagues is good or bad thing? 

In my company/team most the people are from same age and mostly male. I found there is too much unnecessary discussions and arguments and worse thing is you have to respect each other. 

Just curious because today my junior almost disrespected me and I was very confused how to react.

Too much friendly with Colleagues

Frontend Engineer

Today, I received a warning email from the HR stating my performance is slow and they are going to decide on my employment.

I have joined this company very recently, as SDE 2. They are expecting me to complete a 30 day task within 10 days. I got excited and took it. I have been working my ass off, beyond the clock to achieve it. Most of it was new to me, since i don't have professional experience on this particular stack. It took me 6 days to achieve stability and structure of the application. Literally I haven't been sleeping a bit.

Now after 10 days they just shared this email. I really wanted to let this out.

Feeling shitty about performance feedback

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As the title suggests, does it make sense to talk about a colleagues’s inability to deliver to my manager. The colleague’s incompetence to take ownership is very evident now to everyone and the manager is not taking any steps on it. Others have to basically cleanup and babysit him. Worse part, this colleague gets paid the highest in the team. At this point it’s just breeding resentment across the team. How to handle this situation? Any tips. Early stage startup, the manager is part of the founding team.

Should you confront your manager about a colleague’s incompetence?

Generalist

It's been around 8 months as a Frontend developer working at a Startup. My senior is very fast at coding so he is saying that you should think about that you are made for development or not. I am feeling very demotivated. What should I do now?

My senior is saying me think whether you are made for development or not?

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How to handle a situation if manager humiliates someone in every meeting in front of other team members?

Data scientist

Hi everyone, sorry for the rant in advance!

 So I have recently joined as a consultant and got tagged in a project 2 months back. Given that it was a stress period deployment, the pressure at times has been maddening. Besides, I am a fresher from a not so same background, so I often take a little time more than others in a few matters in grasping things. At times, I am scolded by manager for some minor mistakes which I do not complain about as I consider those as learning steps but sometimes it gets me that despite working for more than 12 hours a day ( not even getting to charge that many hours). Not that I am looking for any easy way out but some constructive suggestions would really help. Thanks in advance.

Morale boost

Program Manager

you are perceived what your boss says about you.
If you get along with your boss, it is well and good else if you and your boss don’t get along, rarely things work out for people.

Have others also observed this?
How can one manage if he/she and his boss don’t get along?

Is success in corporates 90% dependant on pleasing your boss specifically in non-tech roles?

I am a software engineer with 1 year of professional experience and about 2 years of experience counting all my freelance gigs as well as internships.

I’ve identified that I’m good at picking up new technologies easily. I’m also very detail oriented and tend to find the moat optimal solutions even though my current position only expects me to follow the PRD provided by my tech lead.

I find that most of the times, I have had to raise my concerns to my seniors for a change of an approach with me being correct almost all the time by the end of the discussion.

Now I feel confused, that maybe I was being underestimated and therefore underpaid by my employer.

Context: I switched to this company about 6 months ago with a package of 12 LPA and got a mere 5% hike to 12.65 LPA during last month with a promotion from being a technical associate -> software development engineer.
During my meeting with the manager, i was told that my performance was ‘very good’ but since its been only 6 months, they are giving me a promotion to match my skills but not give me a good hike.

Any thoughts?

CTC check

My story -
So I switched to a startup last year. I was initially super excited in solving problems. Asking questions and just being curious about everything in general.
   Then, some incidents of my manager's behavior and team folks has turned me into a person who is so fucking afraid of now asking questions, doing tasks. My stakeholder communication sometimes I miss on, some things that seem to be pretty obvious had I been my competent self of previous organization, I am missing out on.
   I don't communicate well simply because I don't want to face my current manager and team. There's huge disconnect as well. I am not at all excited to work everyday. 
 
My friend was miserable in my previous org but now after switch he's damn happy and doing good!

I want to know if this is something that happens with you all? Or are you all like you fit in everywhere?
Or is it just My problem and my incompetence? Because I am always reminiscing my past org and my performance there was exceptional!

Has anyone ever faced a situation where you perform excellent in some org but not in another?

4 interns in my team, 1 male and 3 are female. Only 1(Male) is from core CS Branch and rest are all from non CS branches.

The 3 are learning how to code in python and this 1 intern is blowing all the tasks that we are giving. 

I can see the fear of HR on my manager’s face at each standup. 
For if he fails the 3 non performing interns and gives only 1 PPO.

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