At my first job, the environment was very stressful. For example, as an Android developer, we were expected to develop and QA applications in the number of 1 to 2 every few weeks. There was understaffing and developers were told to perform the workload of QA (testing other developer's apps). I could not work under this immense pressure and was fired like those before me.

at my second job, the environment was good, I was making good progress until I jumped in on a new Javascript framework and decided to take leadership. There was different philosophies that emerged, I was more about delivering X feature before deadline, and the other manager was about not delivering X feature until code was completely refactored, even pushing the deadline, causing customer to get anxious. For instance, I had all of my work undone even though the feature was complete and working bug free because I did not use proper number of spacings or things were not refactored. CEO decided to go with manager's decision, I Was fired.

How do I deal with past jobs and reason for leaving in a job interview? I am thinking and thinking and I just can't think of a good thing to say. I really don't feel comfortable dropping the bombshell and saying things like how it really went down. I want to be positive and affirmative in my answer in dealing with questions regarding my past job positions.

I also don't know what the ex-coworkers will say about me if they followed through with references, even though I got assurances from my last CEO and the manager they will put in a good word for me, I really don't know how my story would match up.

Needless to say, I've almost very little confidence at this point of my career. I feel extremely stressed out just thinking about the how everything has unfolded and do not know how to explain this to an interviewer.

Update: I think looking back on both cases overworked and failing to take vacation when I needed to was the reason. I definitely do think that this is a responsibility on my part and I have wisened up about it. Part of my reason for this is that was unrealistic expectation of my abilities to cope with stress and continued work load.

Update: @DXM yes lack of communication naturally is downward spiral. when I got overworked and stressed out from it, my communication eroded. It was as if the more I said yes to more work the more silent I got because more was at stake. I think that if I knew how to communicate when the workload got too much early on, it would've been fine. It is due to underestimation of the workload.

Update: Sorry I was "let go" for business reasons in the official record. I kind of put it like this in my interview today. My strong point is that I have laser focus but it's a double edged sword because when I got overloaded with work I tend to plow through it all without communicating when things got too stressful. My decision to move out and live alone when I wasn't really well equipped with these coping mechanisms and unhealthy life style lead me to contributed to the lack of communication.

At my first job, the environment was very stressful, had short deadlines and too much workload and was understaffed. As a result, I could not perform sufficiently and was fired.

At my second job, I moved into management, but had a different philosophy than the other manager and had my complete and working work undone. The CEO fired me.

How do I deal with past jobs and reason for leaving in a job interview?

I don't know what my ex-coworkers will say about me if they followed through with references, even though I got assurances from my last CEO and the manager they will put in a good word for me.

At my first job, the environment was very stressful. For instance, as an android developer, we were expected to develop and QA applications in the number of 1 to 2 every few weeks. There was understaffing and developers were told to perform the workload of QA (testing other developer's apps). I could not work under this immense pressure and was fired like those before me.

at my second job, the environment was good, I was making good progress until I jumped in on a new javascript framework and decided to take leadership. There was different philosophies that emerged, I was more about delivering X feature before deadline, and the other manager was about not delivering X feature until code was completely refactored, even pushing the deadline, causing customer to get anxious. For instance, I had all of my work undone even though the feature was complete and working bug free because I did not use proper number of spacings or things were not refactored. CEO decided to go with manager's decision, I Was fired.

How do I deal with past jobs and reason for leaving in a job interview? I am thinking and thinking and I just can't think of a good thing to say. I really don't feel comfortable dropping the bombshell and saying things like how it really went down. I want to be positive and affirmative in my answer in dealing with questions regarding my past job positions.

I also don't know what the ex-coworkers will say about me if they followed through with references, even though I got assurances from my last CEO and the manager they will put in a good word for me, I really don't know how my story would match up.

Needless to say, I've almost very little confidence at this point of my career. I feel extremely stressed out just thinking about the how everything has unfolded and do not know how to explain this to an interviewer.

Update: I think looking back on both cases overworked and failing to take vacation when I needed to was the reason. I definitely do think that this is a responsibility on my part and I have wisened up about it. Part of my reason for this is that was unrealistic expectation of my abilities to cope with stress and continued work load.

Update: @DXM yes lack of communication naturally is downward spiral. when I got overworked and stressed out from it, my communication eroded. It was as if the more I said yes to more work the more silent I got because more was at stake. I think that if I knew how to communicate when the workload got too much early on, it would've been fine. It is due to underestimation of the workload.

Update: Sorry I was "let go" for business reasons in the official record. I kind of put it like this in my interview today. My strong point is that I have laser focus but it's a double edged sword because when I got overloaded with work I tend to plow through it all without communicating when things got too stressful. My decision to move out and live alone when I wasn't really well equipped with these coping mechanisms and unhealthy life style lead me to contributed to the lack of communication.

At my first job, the environment was very stressful. For example, as an Android developer, we were expected to develop and QA applications in the number of 1 to 2 every few weeks. There was understaffing and developers were told to perform the workload of QA (testing other developer's apps). I could not work under this immense pressure and was fired like those before me.

at my second job, the environment was good, I was making good progress until I jumped in on a new Javascript framework and decided to take leadership. There was different philosophies that emerged, I was more about delivering X feature before deadline, and the other manager was about not delivering X feature until code was completely refactored, even pushing the deadline, causing customer to get anxious. For instance, I had all of my work undone even though the feature was complete and working bug free because I did not use proper number of spacings or things were not refactored. CEO decided to go with manager's decision, I Was fired.

How do I deal with past jobs and reason for leaving in a job interview? I am thinking and thinking and I just can't think of a good thing to say. I really don't feel comfortable dropping the bombshell and saying things like how it really went down. I want to be positive and affirmative in my answer in dealing with questions regarding my past job positions.

I also don't know what the ex-coworkers will say about me if they followed through with references, even though I got assurances from my last CEO and the manager they will put in a good word for me, I really don't know how my story would match up.

Needless to say, I've almost very little confidence at this point of my career. I feel extremely stressed out just thinking about the how everything has unfolded and do not know how to explain this to an interviewer.

Update: I think looking back on both cases overworked and failing to take vacation when I needed to was the reason. I definitely do think that this is a responsibility on my part and I have wisened up about it. Part of my reason for this is that was unrealistic expectation of my abilities to cope with stress and continued work load.

Update: @DXM yes lack of communication naturally is downward spiral. when I got overworked and stressed out from it, my communication eroded. It was as if the more I said yes to more work the more silent I got because more was at stake. I think that if I knew how to communicate when the workload got too much early on, it would've been fine. It is due to underestimation of the workload.

Update: Sorry I was "let go" for business reasons in the official record. I kind of put it like this in my interview today. My strong point is that I have laser focus but it's a double edged sword because when I got overloaded with work I tend to plow through it all without communicating when things got too stressful. My decision to move out and live alone when I wasn't really well equipped with these coping mechanisms and unhealthy life style lead me to contributed to the lack of communication.