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Great rant man,
I think you might have told yourself to try looking for totally different job !
btw are you based on US ?
I am okay with full time remote, and then do extra to talk to people afterwards.But there are plenty of companies, sometimes totally next building from the previous one like it happened to me mulitple times, even though I didn't search for it -
@freshlyfe Thanks, I'm located in West-Europe
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@wojtek322 oh I see, I'm currently in Slovakia.
Interesting though, hope you find something that will help you grow more spontaneously I guess, the processes and weirdness can just be too overpowering without us realising it much -
@AlgoRythm I still don't understand how one of the riches countries never made it mandatory for workers to take x days of holiday. Apparently companies in the US are not even forced to give PTO. In most of EU countries, it is at least 20 days by law excluding the holidays like xmas.
For the remaining 12 days, our work week by law is 38 hours but a lot of companies employ their workers for 40 hours and give them then 1 day holiday per month when employed at that company. If you start in begin of November, that would only be 2 days. So this way, you have 32 days of holiday (but more like 20 days of holiday and 12 days of overtime that you can take whenever).
Even companies are forced for their employees to take the 20 mandatory holidays off, they can get fined if there is proof that they try to stop the workers from taking it. (and employees are taxed a lot if they do not take those days).
Heck, we even have the right to take 2 consecutive weeks off in the summer. -
@whimsical Yea, it's a stupid system and our structure has so many loopholes. A typical IT package includes company car, fuel/charging card, eco voucher, insurance, smartphone, phone subscription, sport voucher
Heck, my previous company even gave us a monthly budget to buy literature related to our job... But you guessed it, nobody used it for that and just pocketed the €5 (which was taxed less compared to adding that €5 to the salary after taxes). Same for money for your car wash etc.
Those stuff are not added to your salary before taxes but only after taxes
But I did expect the pay raise to be max 33% but only seeing a difference of 4.2% stings. (To be fair, my salary uses less loopholes is less optimized but still). -
@wojtek322 America is more about economy than people. Whatever, it could be worse; it could be about neither economy nor people.
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I think some of the cons can be fixed especially if the bosman is chill. I'd start with the bus factor and combine that with the alterior motive of working with seniors.
Try to expand your sphere of influence s bit without so grosely overstepping that people feel you are going behind people's back or the guy that thinks he's all that.
If that doesn't work you can always leave. Stating the lies and no financial upside as reason while not burning them as potential client in the future.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
Oh man, I kinda start to regret changing this job. Currently I'm employed at as a contractor through a third firm but I work pretty much full time. The initial deal between the client & the consultancy firm is that I would start there after 1 year
cons:
- My previous wage was more optimized and I now earn a €25 more per month after taxes despite earning €600 more before taxes. I did not see the calculations after taxes before starting.
- It seems since I started after July, I don't get the end of year bonus (thus making less money after taxes in 2025 despite switching jobs)
- My colleagues at the new job are friendly but they barely talk even during lunch. And if they do, it's about Pokémon trading cards
- One day work-from-home instead of 3 (I thought it would be great change since my social life is quite bad lol)
- Company kinda glorified that I could learn a lot from a very senior developer but after 4 months, I still haven't had the chance to work with him and there seems to be no plan. As of today, I was always the most senior FE dev in every workplace.*
- No agile development (I thought this was a plus in the start but kinda miss it)
- No project manager or product owner
- Unreleastic deadlines with a visible backlash when failed
- No project specifications to combat unclear expectations and when creating one, it suffers from feature creep.
- Senior dev is a "yes, we will do that by the deadline"-man
- No shops in walking distance
- Shorter lunch breaks
- People can easily see my screen so can't really do reddit
- smaller dev-team: 3 vs 11 (HR said 10 people in the IT-department, it is true but I did understand it as 7-8 devs at least but nope)
- More time tracking
- Technically a 1 year probation period so the legal protection would reset again after I swap jobs officially (like if I get fired next year, I don't have to be paid off for an extra few weeks)
- No testing department
- Was lied to about being able to do some backend work (they said 75% FE, 25% BE work, now 90% FE - 10% design)
- Was lied about the existence of the technical specifications of a project (one was very well, the one with the deadline does not exist, one more was simply not needed)
- more office noise
- no relax room (even when the one at my previous job was only used once a month)
- bus factor of 1
pros:
+ At least the workplace is a 10min drive instead of 25-55 min previously
+ Less meetings
+ free fruit & unhealthy snacks in the office (refilled Tuesday but gone by Friday)
+ AI is not being glorified
+ more privacy concerned (even when this dataset needs less privacy regulations)
+ Working charging ports for EV
+ fresh code base
+ The big boss is chill
+ design freedom
+ Less people are getting fired
+ Less responsibility so far but that will change
+ We stop one hour earlier on Fridays (technically still paid for now)
+ Actually work I could do here (if it is not blocked by the lack of existence of the backend)
Same shit, different company:
- Lack of clear communication with the other developer. (previous company, it was great to work with a few remote developers but sucky to work with an other remote dev, now there is a lack of communication with a dev that sitting across of me)
- No documentation
- No project specifications
- Both companies feel a bit immature
- Both projects are a bit uninteresting
- Still a feeling of not being satisfied with the job
If I go fulltime at the client:
- I would lose 6 extra holiday days (26 vs 32) since the work contract would swap from 40 hours to 39 and thus I would lose 'overtime day' per 2 months.
- The salary would become slightly less optimized
- They don't have to pay the consultancy fee that I do not see so I can ask for a big raise & have more leverage as the only FE dev.
I know I did ignore some red flags since I really wanted a job switch. I thought the lack of agile would be compensated by existence of technical documentation and clearer requirements.
\* not fully true but any senior FE dev either sucked at communication (for example; I had PRs open for 9 months unreviewed) or got fired after 2 months. I had one senior dev that didn't really teach me anything but did learn indirectly from him.
Might delete the rant later
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