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How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next t…
But at the jobs I ended up loving and staying at long term, the anxiety was like “omg these people are so cool and so great and so fucking competent, I hope I can measure up to their expectations.” This job turned out to be stereotypically Silicon Valley in the worst ways, hiring young, cheap engineers and glorifying coding all night and sleeping under your desks. Some managers respond to a shitty corporate situation by hunkering down and behaving like a shit umbrella; doing whatever they can to protect their people, at the cost of undermining the company itself.
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