I'm pretty sure I'm getting PIPed this month. Can't really complain, I've barely been pushing code, most days I mindlessly browse slack all day and do no work.
I 100 percent blame it on the pandemic, and WFH.
I was thinking of going into finance or defence where you're still forced to go into an office every day.
I'm in the same boat. I've worked at a big silicon company for the past year and a bit. Make a hell of lot more, work from home, and have hated every minute when I know, if it weren't for WFH, I'd love it.
I was in the military in my younger years and the people I worked with there are still my closest now. I worked in finance for a few after that and the nights spent working on difficult problems till the early hours of the morning were some of the most fulfilling one's I've had. Perhaps it's different in software land where everyone seems a bit more unsociable but as an EE I loved going into the lab and seeing what everyone is up to for the day. Even when we were just working at our computer desks, we were able to ask each other for help, advice, or just shoot the breeze. The office was never this political battleground where everyone turned up to work miserable that I've heard so much about. It was a place of camaraderie over joint hardships.
Now all I've got are these 4 walls to keep me company, while I try my hardest to keep attention for a mere 20 minutes of productivity before disappearing off to make a tea for the 12th time that day, or glaze over after the 5th teams meeting of the morning. I read these other HN posts and constantly think maybe I'm much more socially charged than I think, or everyone else is much less so than they think. All WFH has done is made me think I'm either depressed, suffering from ADHD, or both - when I felt like a normal, happy member of society before.
Same here. Way too distracted and barely written a line of code at my faang workplace today even though it's simple bash script and I would have blazed through stuff like this years ago. Perhaps there is a self-selection policy at play here, the engineers who are distracted and unproductive are the only ones who have enough time to complain on HN about it.
Put on a Performance Improvement Plan, a prerequisitive before getting fired. Also known as Paid Interview Prep, because that's what it ends up being for many people.
Is this just an American thing? I don't think tech companies can fire like this in Europe. I have 100% worked in companies that used PIP processes which had nothing to do with firing staff.
I'm pretty sure I'm getting PIPed this month. Can't really complain, I've barely been pushing code, most days I mindlessly browse slack all day and do no work.
I 100 percent blame it on the pandemic, and WFH.
I was thinking of going into finance or defence where you're still forced to go into an office every day.