‘High energy fast paced environment’ basically translates to ‘our management is totally incompetent and cannot form or stick to a plan that makes any sensr, but our company culture has normalized that to such a degree that we will shame and neg you untill you accept this as nornal, go insane, or quit.’
I seem to have found a unicorn. My company is fast-paced because we are building out like mad. Unpredictable because we are delivering things no one else has done before. And high energy because the employees are rapidly promoted up through the company.
On the other hand, I’ve seen a LOT of the other, normal kind of companies described above.
Oof, my company is doing only 1 or 1.5 of those things, I am great at back end engineering and delivering in the face of fuckery of all kinds, can I plz haz job
Translation: the sales team promised we get them a finished product in 2 weeks and we still don’t have a working prototype
Translation: The leadership will change their mind a few times an hour and you will be expected to make those changes just as quickly
Translation: The CEO is a coke addict
Yep.
‘High energy fast paced environment’ basically translates to ‘our management is totally incompetent and cannot form or stick to a plan that makes any sensr, but our company culture has normalized that to such a degree that we will shame and neg you untill you accept this as nornal, go insane, or quit.’
or fast-paced meaning “We’re actually short 4 people for this role and have been for years, but management only gave us the req for 1 backfill”
Omg the last tech job I had the sons CEO soon to be CEO was a cokehead.
I seem to have found a unicorn. My company is fast-paced because we are building out like mad. Unpredictable because we are delivering things no one else has done before. And high energy because the employees are rapidly promoted up through the company.
On the other hand, I’ve seen a LOT of the other, normal kind of companies described above.
Oof, my company is doing only 1 or 1.5 of those things, I am great at back end engineering and delivering in the face of fuckery of all kinds, can I plz haz job