Questions tagged [failure]
Pertaining to dealing with failure in the workplace - failed projects, failed employers etc.
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I think I'm experiencing gender discrimination
My position as the only female that was trained and was supposed to start a lead tech / repair position was taken away.
My lead tech role matches the males I work with and I have been denied a raise ...
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I have difficulty in holding a job [closed]
I've been working in the tech industry for the past 5 or so years, in various roles as Business Analyst, Scrum Master, PM, etc. But I haven't been able to hold a job for more than 2 years. I've never ...
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My boss has unfair attitude to my colleague
I work in R&D company. I have a colleague (name him B) who was given a relatively hard and tedious task with somewhat unclear requirements. He was doing his best to accomplish it, even working on ...
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Should I confront the owner of the business (he hired me) about my supervisor lying about my performance and subsequently firing me? [closed]
I was hired as office manager for a kitchen & bath design company. During the interview, I was very candid about what experience I had, as well as what I didn't know about the position, i.e. the ...
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Seasonal job went great. Have been applying for permanent position since. Manager finally told me I'm not right fit
A couple years ago I worked seasonally at a retail store. It was actually a boutique store that required specialized knowledge. Also it was unionized and had lots of opportunities for advancement, for ...
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How to explain in my interviews why it took me so long to complete my master's degree?
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I really, really appreciate all the advice and suggestions. I wanted to point out that some answers/comments incorrectly assumed that I was unable to provide an answer altogether. But that'...
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Excuses?... Or true mental health journey?.. Time to recover?
I am fortunate to have a position that I love. This position grants me the opportunity to work with professionals from different backgrounds in all fields dedicated to serving underserved families and ...
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Properly approach your "boss" for resignation
Please note before reading: I apologize in advance if this problem does not tackle a specifically work-related issue, but I think that the same advice can apply to this situation as well. Also, I lack ...
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How to navigate an embarrassing mistake I created and recover?
asking for a friend
As part of a small project I wrote some code some months ago.
The code passed my tests, code review, UAT by business analysts and everything was fine. When the time came for me ...
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How to make sure I'm not blamed for a looming disaster at a new job?
I started a new job 2 months ago. I was staffed on a project as a team member in a very small team. The rest of the team are very good friends, I was treated with distrust.
It was made clear to me ...
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I will be resigning due to an inability to finish my work, how to prevent in the future? [closed]
I have a number of projects that I am unable to finish on time. I will not be able to catch up, because I do not have the energy/focus to work more hours than I already do.
Everyone at work is ...
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How do I explain to a team that the project they will work on for six months will certainly be cancelled?
I am a project manager at my company. I usually work on projects where the customers are government offices, public administrations and company related to them. In September we will begin a project ...
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Should I ask for a feedback even though I know I did not do well?
I recently had an interview with the head of a lab where I was given a task to write a code, answer some questions and send it back. The code was difficult and I know I have failed that part but I ...
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Is it okay to be wrong as a CTO?
I'm working as a CTO in a small company. We have a few part-time employees but will increase the workforce when needed.
For the past 6 months I've been working on introducing tests with the goal of ...
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Manager blaming team for failure, how to counter
I'm part of an internal software development team at a retail business. We're currently working on a major project and in all likelihood it's going to fail. It's pretty much over at this point.
Over ...
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Failing at a data analysis project [closed]
I recently started to work as a remote independent contractor part-time data analyst/content writer. I proposed a topic for a new article that involved developing a Python scrapper to analyze text and ...
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Stuck in Wordpress [closed]
First of all, apologies if it isn't the right place to write this. I've been following StackExchange for years, but I just decided to sign up and I'm not familiar with posting.
I'm a web developer ...
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How do I tell my manager that I'm not the right person to finish this project?
I have been working on a project for several months. For the last several weeks, I have constantly been feeling as if I were about one bug away from having it finished. Each fix reveals one new issue ...
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How can I tackle being retroactively assigned project ownership for blame?
I have a situation where, in spite of not being the project lead, I've been expected to do most of the project work, but without the necessary support and timely input from colleagues.
Much of the ...
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Failed swag promotion [closed]
While it's not my primary job responsibility, I am involved in a program that helps to promote our company among employees. We had some budget to buy some company swag for the employees, so I took ...
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How to ask to get back to previous department?
Last year in July, I started working for my current employer, a software firm with ±250 employees worldwide (just to get the picture). We are working on a client-server based software product, and I ...
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Bad collegiate career - explain details to employer?
Background
I am from Austria and currently pursuing my master's degree in mechanical engineering. I will finish in about a year, then two years overdue (for people who pay fortunes for education this ...
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Resume, explain why I didn't finish degree?
I entered a nursing program in my 40s. One semester my mother became very ill, I was the only one to care for her and resulted in my failing. I was able to retake that semester. The last semester, a ...
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Coworker is not making any progress (how to help him?) [closed]
I work in a university and do my phd there. In our office is another phd student which seems to struggle a lot with essentially everything and I am wondering if there is anything I can do about it ...
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Programmer stuck in a rut [closed]
I am 33, live in Austalia and I'm stuck in a massive rut. I earn a modest salary as a computer programmer programming Delphi. I finished my masters with first class honours 4 years ago and took a job ...
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Hints that a project is setup to fail [closed]
Company context
Company A, which I work for, has decided to outsource some of its operations to companies B, C, and D. These are currently run by mixed teams of ~ 50% employees of A and 50% onsite ...
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IT consultant left and no one can understand his style of programming [closed]
There are a small group of programmers where I work. A few years ago our boss brought a consultant in to help us move to a newer programming language. Since then our boss was 'resigned' and we now ...
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How can I convince an employer not to go out of business?
The business I work for has been suffering financially and I believe I can save the business a lot of money by radically changing people's job descriptions. Some people would have to get laid off and ...
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I was promised that I would keep my seniority if I joined this company [closed]
In August of 2012 I was approached by the plant manager to join his company. Part of his offer was that I would retain my seniority if I left my employer of eight years. In September of 2013 I did. ...
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How to explain issues of momentum
I am a Web Developer, full-time, but that isn't so much important.
At my current gig, and at previous jobs really, there is this issue of not dividing up work and planning for it far enough ahead of ...
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How to work with an underskilled peer who isn't going away? [duplicate]
I work for group A of a large company as a senior software developer / team lead. Group A contains almost all the software development function within the company.
We're currently working on a ...
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Should I mention an interesting but failed task in my resume as an achievement?
I recently implemented a very interesting feature - centralized logging system with the help of Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana.
But after a few days I had to revert it, remove from the project, ...
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Is it better to admit that I failed part of my degree, than to have a 8 month gap in my CV? [duplicate]
I have just started looking for a new job which will be my second job out of university and so far I've had one telephone interview which went mostly well. The interviewer did raise some concern that ...
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How to show unfinished Grad program in resume and explain it in interview, since I am ashamed of talking about it? [duplicate]
This is not a duplicate. Incomplete projects are not equivalent to 2 years of education from a prestigious university gone down the chute. Some projects always goes down for one reason or other. ...
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What can I conclude about poorly performing interview candidates?
I recently held interviews of two offshore C# programmers (from India). Both interviews went reasonably well until I gave them a minor programming challenge to be solved in collaboration with me. On a ...
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Would it be considered acceptable to ask for a 2nd try on a technical interview exam?
Last week, I was scheduled for an interview at a mid-size company for a programmer position.
I believe I performed well on the verbal interview but not on the technical test which was a typical ...
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Fired for cause, how to explain during interviews [duplicate]
Until today I worked at a top firm as a star-performer and was set to get a promotion in the next few weeks, however I was let go. I had made a poor judgement error in our systems that was wrong but ...
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Is there a correlation between passing fizzbuzz on paper and (good|effective|productive) programmers? [closed]
I understand the motivation to weed out non-programmers from programmers. It seems like a lot of blogs either conclude or insinuate that candidates who fail fizzbuzz questions don’t make good ...
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'Failed' take home coding test - should I resubmit?
I was given an opportunity to apply for an internal Junior dev position within the company I am working at (they would not have considered me due to my degree otherwise)
I come from a non-CS/SoftEng ...
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What to do when previous boss is asking to help finishing failed project?
Recently, about 2 month ago, I stopped working to this side project which was planned to launch about now, but because the Mother company stopped financing the project it closed. And few days ago the ...
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I scored low on the Technical Test, but they offered me a Job?
I interviewed for a PHP Developer's position earlier in the week, my experience is in C#, so my knowledge of PHP is extremely limited.
But I went for the position anyway, because if I didn't turn up ...
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Responding to interview questions about past failures of professional certification exams
I am completing my account certification with ACCA. ACCA certification requires passing up to 14 professional examinations (called 'papers').
I am interviewing for positions that ask whether I have ...
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"Promoted" to Fail - What Should I Do?
I worked for three years as a business unit's marketing manager, gaining a great reputation, solid annual reviews, becoming a certified high-potential, and carrying a promising career development plan ...
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How should I mention that I'm failing my MSc course?
Two years ago I got a BSc first class which landed me a position in a top UK university MSc programme. Due to a combination of personal circumstances and mental illness I'm now failing the course. I'm ...
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Got in over my head on a project, how do I tell my boss I can't do it anymore?
I have been working as a Jr. Developer at my current job for about a year and half. After been at my job for about 5 months I volunteered to do complete rewrite of a very old system that the company ...
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Is it possible to make leaving a PhD look good on a CV / Resume? [closed]
I am in the process of leaving my PhD programme in life sciences at a top university in the UK. A PhD is simply not for me and I find the work/life balance to be intolerable; in addition, my PhD so ...
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How to deal with an incompetent colleague?
The setup...
A little more than a year ago, we started a search for a "rock star" developer. We had lost our legitimately brilliant lead developer to a start up. I was able to step in and fill his ...
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I worked for a company affiliated with a very publicly failed project. Should I take it off my resume?
I worked briefly for a company that had a recent highly publicized failed government project (I'm sure you can probably guess). While I did not work on that particular project, I think all the bad ...
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Colleague keeps trying to set me up to fail and discredit me
I have been working at my company for around 9 months. It is small place and I am having problems with a woman I work with. I was brought in with a couple of other people to drastically expand the ...
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How to work with somebody who works quickly without caring for quality? [closed]
I work at an organisation with a very small dev department, developing a project with one co-worker only. We are both junior, never used ASP MVC .NET or worked on production grade code before. The ...
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