Questions tagged [new-job]
Questions about starting a new job, the etiquette required, and potential pitfalls involved.
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Committing for a shorter time than employer wants
I have been offered a job as a junior software engineer (with little to no previous experience) in a scale up.
I have not accepted yet, as it turns out they have a very restrictive non compete clause ...
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I felt mistreated during the interview. How should I proceed?
In this round, we discussed the technical solutions I provided. I am confident in my expertise in this area.
While the interviewer pointed out some minor errors, which I anticipated due to the time ...
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How to say 'no' to more work?
How can I say 'No' (politely or in a very smart way) to extra work after work time? How can I say no to work that isn’t my responsibility but my manager keeps throwing at me?
I’m terrible at ...
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Am I getting "scammed"? (Job Search)
I am currently in the software dev job market. Been applying for about 2 months now. Two days ago I receive:
"We appreciate your interest in the [----] position.
Your application was approved ...
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Signed an offer but manager not responding
Signed an offer and gave notice to my current company. My start date will be next Monday. According to the offer package, my manager should get in touch with me before I start. I am so stressful since ...
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How to figure out exactly what will be expected at a new workplace and face it [closed]
I have been working at a state university as a lecturer, actually in a senior position (on contract though) because I have a post graduate qualification as well, completed with a research component.
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Should I be more accomodating than usual during my probation period or should I try to work as if I'm not on the probation period? [closed]
I am starting a new job with a probation period. What I wanted to know was: Should I be more accommodating than usual during my probation period or should I try to work as if I'm not on the probation ...
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Manager did not give clear answer when I asked for a day off
I recently started a new job. I asked my manager if I could take a day off next week for a family obligation. He said I hadn't been with the company long enough to use my vacation time. I found this a ...
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Should I deliberately work less to reduce expectations if my manager is giving me higher work load? [closed]
This question is a followup of another question I asked a month back: How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
What has happened since then?
As expected, I have been given a ...
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Coworker keeps telling me where to sit. How can I handle this?
I recently started a new job.
My coworker who sometimes works from home asked me which desk I sit at when he is not there. I told him at the same desk I normally do. He told me that needs to change, ...
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Worker from another department offered to show me around because I'm new. Now his manager is involved and things feel formal
Recently I started a new job. My position is tech support. I didn't know this until I started the job, but it seems like the company places no value on streamlining things. There's a wide diversity of ...
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In a new job when is it good to ask questions about the company and its systems vs mind my own business?
In some of my past jobs I had gotten the feedback that I asked too many questions. Or that I asked them in the wrong way. To be clear I only got this feedback occasionally. I have since taken ...
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Handling a Refactoring Project with Limited Access to Source Code
I apologize if this isn't the correct place to ask this question, but I'm hoping to get some insight from the community on a problem I'm facing.
I recently finished an interview with a company as a ...
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How can I improve my chances of getting a job in Europe as a Resident Third-Country-National?
The backstory
I'm a mid-senior level UX designer. I moved to an Eastern-European Schengen country from South-East Asia six months ago because I'm married to an EU citizen. My resident permit lets me ...
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How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
I joined a new job two weeks ago where I was hired after an interview based on generic JavaScript programming knowledge with my past work experience close to two years. For the initial 12 days, I was ...
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How to respond when companies ask me why you are applying for a different role job when you're already employed in another role job?
I currently work as system administrator in fintech company. Recently I applied for QA trainee role in another top company of Nepal(better than current one-if it matters, but I don't really care about ...
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How long should a person stay at a new job if they don't like it?
I started a new job about 6 weeks ago. Though it's difficult to point to a single reason, I don't like going to work. On one hand I want to give the job a fair chance and realize that things do change....
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Manager not telling me in advance where I'll be working
I started a new job about a month ago. I'm in the IT department of a medium sized company. They have two offices that are relatively close together. When I accepted the job I understood that I would ...
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Consultancy Company vs Getting Hired By Client
Suppose a person works for a business consulting company for a client company and that client company offers him a full time position.
In most cases, would it be best just to take the offer from the ...
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Is it legal for an employer in California to ask for another form of ID when you already provided ID from List A (passport) for Form I-9?
I recently applied, and was hired, for a retail position. When I was completing the onboarding forms online, I entered my ssn and I selected which form of ID I would present them at the store. The ...
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Excessive Demands Prior to Start Date
I recently accepted a job offer from a startup but declined their request to start immediately after leaving my previous job because I needed some downtime. Currently, I am on a break. However, ...
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As my first job, how can I gain the most out of my mentor, a senior engineer?
I am three weeks into my first software engineering job at a software company in Canada working on a windows desktop application in C++. My work consists of fixing newly reported bugs in the software, ...
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Company wants to see offer letter received from another company to match salary
I love my job but I've been offered a job at a different company with slightly more salary. As I was in two minds to take the offer, I discussed with my current company if there is anything that can ...
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How serious is it that my new teammates didn't show up to a meeting I set up that they agreed to attend?
I started a new job as a senior developer five weeks ago. I have worked with a one of my colleagues and two of my managers at a previous company, so I'm not a totally unknown quantity at this new ...
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New job project 100,000s lines of code with no low level documentation [closed]
OK. So I have joined a new organization as RTL engineer (FPGA/ASIC front end work). The design that I shall be working on is literally 100,000s of lines of VHDL code and several dozens of very large ...
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How do vacation days work for a summer job?
I'm in High School and want to take a lifeguarding job over the summer. The training consists of about 40 hours separated into 1 2 hour lesson a week. I've already attended about 4 so I've put in a ...
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How much will it hurt my career progression to take ~1 month of medical leave 3 months into a new job? [closed]
I just accepted a job offer as a software engineer at a medium-size company which is known for being very selective with hiring (more difficult to get into than the average FAANG company) and having ...
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Finding a career as a researcher without any PhD, work experience, and relevant academic degree
I recognize myself as an "Independent Researcher", however, I have no relevant academic degree in the field in which I research (physics, esp., relativity, and electromagnetism). I just have ...
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I feel like I am kind of being called out publicly for a mistake I made. Should I bring this up with my superiors or is it no big deal?
This is my first job and I'm just about a month in. My workplace uses an app for staff to communicate with each other, and on this app a group chat has been made including myself and everyone in my ...
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Starting at a competitor while owning equity of previous employer
Assume an employee at startup company X has bought a small equity stake (<1%) in this company (we are not talking about granted equity but shares that have been bought at the current valuation of ...
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How to ask new boss for contract with new start date?
After signing the contract, my start date was delayed by a month to 1st February but I still haven't received a contract with the new start date. I mentioned this when I had lunch recently with my ...
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Benefits and risks of telling new employers I have a heart problem I am recovering from
What are the benefits and risks of telling new employers I have a heart problem I am recovering from?
If it was you would you tell new employers?
I work as a software engineer.
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How to approach meeting with new boss after I delayed start date due to medical reasons
I was set to start a new job, but had to postpone due to medical reasons.
New boss scheduled a short meeting after postponing my January start date by a month.
Should I be worried and if he asks do I ...
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Exclusively telephonic conversations before an offer letter and no email?
A little background: I'm a job seeker in the pharmaceutical industry ,and have a bachelor degree in pharmacy followed by an M. Tech degree in Biotechnology) and have been applying to more or less ...
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How to talk about depression in interviews
I am a "new grad", looking for graduate roles at companies.
In my sophomore and junior years, I was a victim of clinical depression (due to conditions created by the pandemic).
Interviewers ...
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If I sign a job offer while on PTO, should I give notice as soon as I sign it or when I come back to work?
I am not sure if I should contact HR while on PTO just to give notice.
Contractually specified notice period is three weeks. If I wait till I come back, I will be giving them notice period of three ...
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If there's a delay caused by a background check and the start date needs to be pushed back, should a new contract or contract amendment be signed?
I told them I need to give my current employer a notice period of three weeks. Then I received an offer letter with a start date which respects that. The offer letter says it is subject to background ...
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How to delay start date of new job? [closed]
I'm set to join a small tech start up in January 2023 but because of a health problem I need to delay my start date by at least one month so I can get treatment. How do I achieve this safely in this ...
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How soon is too soon to add something to a resume
I have recently got a new job in September. How soon is to soon to add it to my resume?
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What should I do when my company overstates my experience to prospective clients?
I just joined an outsourcing company this month. On the first day of work my manager asked me to update my resume to follow the company format. The only weird thing is that in the resume they gave me, ...
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Costly mistake at work [closed]
Ugh.
So I recently started this new job I love, and it's the first time I'm in charge of actual money for any company.
Well, I went away on time off, and when I returned, I realized I had forgotten to ...
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My manager’s continuous negative feedback is affecting me mentally, how can I ask for support? [closed]
I am a new grad (graduated in May 2022) started working at a big tech in June. Team specific tasks weren’t assigned to me until July.
He rarely ever say anything negative during our scheduled 1-1 ...
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Should I email tech recruiter again after not hearing from him for more than 2 weeks?
I reside in Canada and I have applied for a software engineering job in research and development at a well known technology company for which I am really curious and interested. After a couple of days,...
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I'm struggling to complete tasks during probation. How can I fix this situation? [closed]
I have completed about 50 days at my new job. I am still struggling with the tasks assigned to me. The domain as well as the tools are totally new to me. I have not been able to deliver any task ...
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What is my job title? [closed]
I recently got hired as a “Consumer Engagement Manager”. I currently create all the communication (e-marketing, social, & on the app) on a learning app while also assisting other social media ...
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Bullying at workplace
I have joined a new software company and facing problems on multiple fields. Wanted suggestions on how to handle these and continue without getting discouraged.
My team lead (who recently got ...
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How to handle repetitive counter-questions situation
I've been recently accepted in a new position (joining new company) as a team leader. My team is composed of 2 persons, relatively my age and experience.
What I've noticed is that one of those new ...
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Should I leave this job ASAP or wait it out? [closed]
For context - about 2 years ago, I decided I didn't want to continue in the direction I was heading career wise after finishing an Ms. in mathematics and working for a healthcare IT company. After ...
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How to ask for help as a junior engineer?
I’m a junior engineer in a team of senior engineers. I don’t have a technical background coming from a 3 month boot camp after graduating with a BSc in English. This means I don’t understand a lot of ...
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Should I tell my new boss that I apply for a job she will be interviewing?
I applied for a position that was 30 hours and got offered a position for 18 hours (they split the post between me and another and added a few hours). The salary was 3500 less than originally stated (...
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