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In software development, one common approach I've seen to creating a portfolio is having a website with your projects and then having a GitHub account (or equivalent) where the actual code can be ...

I have been at a job for a few months now. We are a small business. I work in a small team of 3-4 people who are all on the same level : no managers except a boss who is rarely around. I am really ...

I was approached by a startup to do some work developing their product. They do not have revenue or funding yet and offered to pay a “market” salary for a contract period that would be 100% deferred ...

I have recently accepted a job offer and the pre-screening process is about to begin through HireRight. I left my last job a few months under a settlement agreement, in which lawyers for both myself ...

I started my 3 month probation period on 7th January, it ends in April. I received my 2nd pay on 24th February which was paid up to 28th February. I was off sick on 11th February following my first ...

I was hit by an employee who was the manager's girlfriend. My wife and I were threatened with our jobs and our housing if we pushed the issue, In front of employees . My wife was fired , I talked to ...

I have been working as a software engineer for 5 years at the current company I work at. Last year, I switched to another team to temporarily help out until the most senior software engineer got back ...

So some incidents today and over the last few weeks have pushed me to the point where I just simply cant work here anymore. And i'm curious if its okay for me to tell. my manager that I'm going to be ...

I am on my trial period of 6 months in Europe and had my performance review last week, which was very negative. I was told that if I do not improve some things, they will let me go. The feedback was ...

Recently I had an online interview (Zoom call) at one of the universities for the PhD position in space physics. The secretary (she contacted me by email) sent to me the date and time slot of the ...

I just started a new job. I have had very little exposure to a lot of people, and I am working remote. I was told to reach out to this individual "Rob" to help me gain access to "XYZ ...

Currently I'm in somewhat of a conundrum. I'm a British software engineer who performs fairly decently in his job. I've got some interesting accomplishments on my CV and the like. I say that because I ...

One of our product owners had sent an elaborate email about TODO tasks to the entire team. Within a few minutes s/he realized that I was not included in that email and forwarded it to me with the ...

When I am sitting for job interviews, During the HR round I am asked with various questions like: What will you do if your peer does some bad things? What will you do to resolve a conflict with a ...

I've had many more phonecons in the past year than usual, and I'm noticing that in meetings with more than a few people, that a person will say that they agree with whomever spoke immediately before ...

There were two job vacancies in particular that appealed to me – 'Job A' and 'Job B' I had an interview for Job A, and then the next day I had a telephone interview with Job B, the manager then said ...

The adoption of the trend called on-call is high among software companies where they expect employees to work beyond office-hours for things like urgent customer issues, pipeline failures, etc. This ...

I have been working as a contractor for a huge company remotely from home. The manager I worked with asked me if I was interested in fte and apply for a position that just opened up. The job posting ...

I found some of what was mentioned in my performance review to be very one-sided, and depicted me negatively in many ways. I appealed this, to explain my side. However, my manager made it seem I was ...

Some time ago, the company I work for decided to introduce a new way of assessing employees. According to the new rules, in any team with more than 20 members, at least one person had to receive ...

Last week I handed in my resignation. In my contract it stipulates that the company can terminate employment given one month's written notice and the employee given three months’ notice. My contract ...

I'm a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience working in a tech startup for 3 years now. Two weeks ago I found something very irritating for me. Since I joined the company, I found ...

I had contacted a former boss via email a week ago who happily agreed to be my reference for a job I am applying to. However, I just received an email today from my potential employer that he has ...

I’ve been told a couple of times that I’m not thinking about the bigger picture during my 360 feedback. I’m not exactly sure why (and intend to ask my manager). How do you think about the bigger ...

I’m in a job that I really don’t enjoy. The work is only tangentially related to my education and the work environment has degraded to the point where I’m looking to leave. There is another department ...

It includes meeting them at a conference. It includes asking my family to work with them. For example https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33090022

We are always required to attend meetings outside office hours without any compensation. Usually, our employers are unwilling to convene meetings during office hours because it would reduce our ...

I work in a technology department at a bank which requires us to be available after hours if anything comes up that could affect the business systems and affect our customers. Of course, there is ...

It seems that at every job I have had, there was little expectation to be candid. People seemed to be walking on eggshells, and wouldn't offer an honest opinion. For example, at my present job, we ...

Before I start explaining what the situation is, I need to give a little bit of context that might be relevant. I work in a mostly software/IT based company that are the global leader in their market, ...

Top management at my company has decided to set up workshops to think about the future of the company, mixing together executives, low-level management (such as myself), shop-floor workers and "...

I have applied for a job in a big company and was rejected in 5 days with a typical template answer of "we regret other candidates had better profiles fitting the job". So, I can guess they ...

Motivation: I think employee turnover is a great measure for employee satisfaction, especially if you believe in the dead sea effect where a company's talent leaves more readily, causing accumulation ...

I'm looking for a new job. Hopefully one that is full time and permanent in the tech industry. I normally include links to websites I have contributed to/made. A group of my friends are making a ...

I recently received two internship offers that I'm enthusiastic about. One is with a very large Fortune 500 company while the other is a mid sized company. The very large company has sent me a ...

Our workplace tends to use retention bonuses as part of the total salary package for most employees. I've just received my bonus offer for this year, and it is substantially lower than in previous ...

I have been the lead developer of a startup (and I was promised the CTO position) for over six months. There are 6 people in it including me (another developer, the CFO, the COO, and two marketing ...

I work in the U.S. branch of a larger company based in Europe. The office I work in is very small, 2-3 employees who handle orders, billing, etc. Then 2-3 managers, an office manager, e-commerce ...

I recently started to lead a data science focused company with two departments that has uses SPSS Modeler extensively. To be honest nobody there has close to the skills of a data scientist. My ...

At my last job I was in a project, my performance was good, I was even going to get a raise, but the pandemic happened and it was put on hold. I was then changed to another team and project. That ...

I was contacted for customer service representative position in which they are using the telegram app to communicate via messenger no video chat and asking me to scan front and back of my drivers ...

I recently read about a union effort in Amazon and a photo of an Amazon flyer was mentioning that accepting a union at Amazon means paying for it: (source) I am French and do not know how unions work ...

If I was hired in January and my contract expires and will be renewed in July, should I expect a salary increase then or at the end of the year like everybody else?

I have 2 years of total experience and I have been working on the most amazing company for 3 months only. However my goal is to gain experience and be sent to work in Europe which is my life goal and ...

I applied to a summer internship position online some 3 months ago. A few days after submission, my application moved to the "review" stage and since then, I have heard nothing from the ...

I am supposed to start working in a trustworthy company in a company next Monday. The company has two offices I have to work in. I signed the contract three months ago. I heard from the boss via email ...

I'm working in the IT industry with a fairly niche technology (to the point that there are only three local major employers using this technology and "everyone knows everyone"). I'm content ...

I just had a meeting with the company's board, and we concluded that we would give out a bonus, but no pay raises this year. Last year was tough; the business was roughly 30% in the red. I think most ...

Many organisiations are now striving to form teams they consider diverse, and to ensure this, they check the potential diversity of candidates already in application forms. Consider e.g. this ...

I'm currently one year into working an 18-month maternity cover. I love my job and I want to stay working there in the long term. I've had excellent performance reviews and positive feedback over the ...