I've just had a very similar experience in my first development job. Hired straight from bootcamp as a full stack dev to work on a chat bot, promised all the training and support I'd need, only for them to try and put me on an app support admin role instead (which I refused and they then tried to make out it was a misunderstanding).
I was thrown into a load of random dev work with absolutely no support or introduction to the massive legacy codebase and never touched the chat bot (which turned out not to be a chat bot at all). Dept Manager was clueless and left halfway through the year, the senior dev was an arrogant, aggressive idiot with no respect and I strongly suspected he didn't know how to write good code (several months after he left they're discovering an ever increasing stack of problems he caused). No testing, pushing straight to production, out of hours deployment, constantly crashing apps and no respect for employees all pushed me to look for a new job.
The place is a shambles and people leave every day. I was close to walking out without anything lined up but was very lucky to get a new job, starting in the New Year, in an exciting company with much better pay and training. Friday is my last day in this job and I can't wait!
It's great to see you founded a company to build UI testing tools, I'll have to check it out. I'm always looking for good testing tools!
I've just had a very similar experience in my first development job. Hired straight from bootcamp as a full stack dev to work on a chat bot, promised all the training and support I'd need, only for them to try and put me on an app support admin role instead (which I refused and they then tried to make out it was a misunderstanding).
I was thrown into a load of random dev work with absolutely no support or introduction to the massive legacy codebase and never touched the chat bot (which turned out not to be a chat bot at all). Dept Manager was clueless and left halfway through the year, the senior dev was an arrogant, aggressive idiot with no respect and I strongly suspected he didn't know how to write good code (several months after he left they're discovering an ever increasing stack of problems he caused). No testing, pushing straight to production, out of hours deployment, constantly crashing apps and no respect for employees all pushed me to look for a new job.
The place is a shambles and people leave every day. I was close to walking out without anything lined up but was very lucky to get a new job, starting in the New Year, in an exciting company with much better pay and training. Friday is my last day in this job and I can't wait!
It's great to see you founded a company to build UI testing tools, I'll have to check it out. I'm always looking for good testing tools!
I'm glad you left the toxic workplace and found a better place, congrats!
Thanks, I'm happy you've discovered UI-licious! Feel free to leave me feedback on the tool. :D