New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: I'm being pushed out of my job
Ask HN: I'm being pushed out of my job
7 by doomerdeveloper | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I’m a backend engineer with ~10 years experience currently working at a fast growing startup with plenty of funding, good market fit and a product that I really believe in. I joined the company before the launch and architected, wrote and implemented all the critical parts of our backend. As an early employee I have a stock options plan. Things have been working almost perfect until a few months ago. In my last one-on-one review with my manager, he was very upset with me. Partly is because of some technical mistakes I had big responsibility (and fixed in record time), but mostly because he’s been hearing bad comments of my work from a co-worker. I came to the conclusion that this person wants my job hence why he’s trash talking to my manager, making the case I am messing things up and I’m not a good engineer. While I’ve done a few mistakes in the codebase, and failed to meet a few deadlines, I also have prevented or fixed bad mistakes made by my colleagues (including the trash-talker), but instead of denouncing them to the manager, chose the path of being a good guy and do my best to help them. However, all the incompetence of the team is being blamed at me with fury from the manager, and this person who trash talks about me makes a lot of effort to befriend him and boost his ego, which makes him very convincing. I don’t have the personality to pull off this kind of politics game. Because of this I’m at the lowest point in my company career, I feel very stressed and angry, because I’ve really contributed quite a lot to the success of this company but I’m not getting recognition and everyone in this person’s influence won’t trust me anymore. What to do in this situation? How can I recover my team’s trust? Should I leave the company?
7 by doomerdeveloper | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I’m a backend engineer with ~10 years experience currently working at a fast growing startup with plenty of funding, good market fit and a product that I really believe in. I joined the company before the launch and architected, wrote and implemented all the critical parts of our backend. As an early employee I have a stock options plan. Things have been working almost perfect until a few months ago. In my last one-on-one review with my manager, he was very upset with me. Partly is because of some technical mistakes I had big responsibility (and fixed in record time), but mostly because he’s been hearing bad comments of my work from a co-worker. I came to the conclusion that this person wants my job hence why he’s trash talking to my manager, making the case I am messing things up and I’m not a good engineer. While I’ve done a few mistakes in the codebase, and failed to meet a few deadlines, I also have prevented or fixed bad mistakes made by my colleagues (including the trash-talker), but instead of denouncing them to the manager, chose the path of being a good guy and do my best to help them. However, all the incompetence of the team is being blamed at me with fury from the manager, and this person who trash talks about me makes a lot of effort to befriend him and boost his ego, which makes him very convincing. I don’t have the personality to pull off this kind of politics game. Because of this I’m at the lowest point in my company career, I feel very stressed and angry, because I’ve really contributed quite a lot to the success of this company but I’m not getting recognition and everyone in this person’s influence won’t trust me anymore. What to do in this situation? How can I recover my team’s trust? Should I leave the company?
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