Re:Ask HN: What was your biggest failure in 2019?
by T3OU-736 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @06:18PM
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So, nothing _really_ jumped out, though there were weak clues/hints. I am not a coder, so it isn't obvious to me that a mention of a technology being "8 months down the road" is unreasonable. But now it would be.
Language (and, it appears, also a culture) barrier with management is... tricky since we don't want to come off as racist/*-ist. Not sure how to evaluate it, aside from asking scenario questions if the manager. Maybe if there manager, during their interview, didn't care about finding the candidate's behavior when they reached their knowledge limits is another sign?
Also, it took me quite a bit of time to work through the mental gymnastics as to whether I was just bad at my job or if I was in a toxic environment. In hindsight it was definitely toxic - as an example senior engineers on my teams were being put in a position where they had to make decisions TPM's should be making (but still hung out when they made the wrong decisions).