Sadly, it happens more often than you would think. I would suggest keeping your hopes up for other companies that you can apply to, taking whatever learnings you can from this process, and move on.
Definitely ask for feedback from the previous company. Most companies provide feedback as to what went wrong.
Yup. That was my inspiration, and sadly, I have been on the side as well where things started from scratch, and ended up blowing up couple of months later.
While I agree to certain extent, you still have these things in different shapes and sizes. Startup teams are a tight knit community in my experience, but as it scales, these aspects start to show their heads.
> Politics is the art of making other people want the things that you want.
I would say tactical negotiation and leveraging personal connect is healthy, but manipulation for personal gains at the cost of a larger good is what is my definition of "politics".
I have seen couple of managers in my career who, while were poor managers based on employee voice surveys in the company, ended up with large charters due to being good at politics/"rubbing backs". I want to say that end result was they screwed it up since their directs ended up leaving their team, but in reality, they thrived despite losing folks and not delivering projects, again due to politics. As an engineer, I failed to appreciate that.
Definitely. Thanks for pointing out the gaps. I will revisit this list in some time, and make changes based on feedback.
If you can, feel free to contribute through the shared github link.
Sorry about that. Thanks for pointing out the gaps. I will revisit this list in some time, and make changes based on feedback.
If you can, feel free to contribute through the shared github link.
1.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10j_wA27aiRoOMP3DL9Tq...
2. https://littleblah.com/post/patterns_and_habits/