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Bengaluru: An employee was laid off via a text message from his boss just 2.5 months after joining the company.
Bengaluru: The employee said that he tried to offer his side of the story after receiving the text, but his boss’s decision remained final. (Representative Image)
A man in Bengaluru who joined a startup as a fresher was left feeling “confused and defeated” after the company fired him in less than three months. The man, with six months of internship experience, claimed that he was terminated via a text message by a board member.
“Got fired today. Feeling confused and defeated. Need suggestions,” the man wrote on Reddit’s “DevelopersIndia” community.
In a detailed account, he shared, “I joined a startup in Bengaluru as a fresher with 6 months of internship experience, starting as a frontend developer. But soon after joining, I was asked to take on full-stack responsibilities. While I was excited to learn, I didn’t have any prior experience with backend development.”
He said that within a week of joining, he was assigned an internal project where 70 per cent of the work was backend-related, despite his role as a frontend developer.
“Some tasks were manageable, but I encountered errors I couldn’t solve, including issues that magically resolved themselves the next day. I conveyed every problem I faced in the project’s Slack channel, as instructed. Sometimes I got a response, other times I didn’t,” he explained.
He also mentioned that the reviews would take around three to four days, causing delays in his work. Unfortunately, when the delays happened, they were blamed on him.
“After working for 2.5 months, I received a message out of nowhere from a board member saying they couldn’t continue with me,” he lamented.
The man explained that he tried to offer his side of the story after receiving the text, but the boss’s decision remained final. “This has left me feeling lost. I’m reflecting on what I could’ve done better and wondering if I was set up for failure by being assigned tasks I wasn’t experienced enough to handle,” he concluded.
Since the man turned to Reddit for suggestions after being fired, many flocked to the comments section to share their thoughts. One individual said, “Don’t take it personally to the degree that it affects your self-confidence. End of the day they were bad managers themselves that they had no plan in hand and it has come down to this. Use this experience to spot red flags when you find your next company.”
“It was a startup, they tend to overwork employees and mostly who stays and who leaves is decided by the upper management which has 0 technical knowledge. Not your fault. It’s just if you had become a full time and gained some experience it would have been good. But then what to do, fate. Find another one and try not to mess up this time,” added another.
A third, who faced something similar, expressed, “Same thing happened to me. Startup, joined as a fresher, was asked to take on full responsibilities fairly soon. And then in 2 months, they let me go. But the only difference was they were upfront and said we needed a senior guy who could deliver immediately. Bro, it hit my confidence hard I was damn depressed. You have to remember, a bad decision on their part isn’t reflective of you. Learn, build projects, apply and go on and become a fantastic dev. You got this.”
