I wasn’t fired but I wasn’t rehired after a contract expired. I carry no ill will, I know economy happens and they had no obligation to. But the reason was that my backend skills were lacking. The colleagues I actually worked with usually said they hated front-end, I found front-end to be my thing. Did front-end stuff for them. Fixed obvious bugs with the UI, made it responsive, etc. but nope, backend was lacking. IMO they had too much backend developers, but whatever 🤷
Also the code was awful and horrible to work with. They had a CRUD system that, no joke, was literally copy and pasted between uses. Not fed from a universal script, literally copy pasted code. When I wanted to update the CRUD, I had to update every individual implementation which had also mutated over time. LOL.
I feel you, and I’ve passed over on re-up as well and know the sting. It’s not as bad as getting fired, but there’s still a feeling of rejection there.
I wasn’t fired but I wasn’t rehired after a contract expired. I carry no ill will, I know economy happens and they had no obligation to. But the reason was that my backend skills were lacking. The colleagues I actually worked with usually said they hated front-end, I found front-end to be my thing. Did front-end stuff for them. Fixed obvious bugs with the UI, made it responsive, etc. but nope, backend was lacking. IMO they had too much backend developers, but whatever 🤷
Also the code was awful and horrible to work with. They had a CRUD system that, no joke, was literally copy and pasted between uses. Not fed from a universal script, literally copy pasted code. When I wanted to update the CRUD, I had to update every individual implementation which had also mutated over time. LOL.
I feel you, and I’ve passed over on re-up as well and know the sting. It’s not as bad as getting fired, but there’s still a feeling of rejection there.
I’m happier though with what I have now. It was stressful looking for something but I found a thing I like.