Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by coredog64 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:47PM (#16917345)

Not entirely true. Just because you're in an "at will" state doesn't mean that someone can't allege that they've been fired for belonging to a protected class. That's why companies have HR departments, PIPs, and all that other nonsense -- to protect the company when someone tries to turn a justifiable firing into a payday.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by erikpukinskis on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:05PM (#16922894)

The courts are really not that friendly to the protected class in cases like that.

There’s a lot of political bodies focused on playing up the idea that women and minorities are this big bad wolf suing legitimate businesses left and right over nothing, and winning. But it’s a largely fabricated narrative created by people trying to turn the leftist identitity politics arguments into a quagmire by “both sides!”ing the situation.

In reality there’s a substantial burden of proof for someone to win a wrongful termination suit.

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