Morning
Has anyone ever moved to a new company and then quickly regretted it?
What sorts of fhings have give you the āickā - what sorts of things made you quickly think you might have made the wrong decision?
Morning
Has anyone ever moved to a new company and then quickly regretted it?
What sorts of fhings have give you the āickā - what sorts of things made you quickly think you might have made the wrong decision?
Yeah, ānew job remorseā has happened a couple of time myself, I did a survey for a charity group on people in tech in June and this was the most common reasons if it helps, data was around 300 people aged 21-63 across UK, US and Canada.
All of the above plus an unwillingness to expand testing to a full process. Simply test tickets, never improve the way test are conducted, never improving the process.
Thatās a big one for me. No agency over the processes, especially my own.
The idea that ideas shouldnāt be raised or discussed, because of process, authority or discomfort means that nobody has any agency or autonomy. We canāt improve our process, nor even improve the ideas behind them, without open and honest discussion. We need to be able to question the status quo or we stand still. Which basically means moving backwards.
I think there even isnāt the perfect process for testing. I know that not changing anything will never be a good process. Projects vary, projects change, so should your testing.
Iāve moved dozens of times since I started testing 1989 - inside companies, to governmental units, money companiesā¦ to managerial roles, testing roles and other roles. Itās never what you expect and its never what it was in the beginning after a year or two. Change is always confusing - but also exciting!
(Nothing compares to getting your first managerial role, meaning being the one that hires, sets salaries and most of all become a part of a management group. The dialogue in those groups is just something elseā¦)
That point 4 - feels like this could be exacerbated in the current era of work from home.
I once dropped out during the trial period because, I had hard issues with a coworker and my boss does not helped me/us resolving the conflict. He said, that he wanted to, but did not.
On specific occurrence from that:
In your Scrum Planning the senior tester always insisted that we only can have the 3 same testing tasks per user story. Design, execute and something I donāt remember.
Me and others wanted to add more specific tasks but that senior tester always put us down.
Fixation on ISTQB. You should get X certificates and anything must match the definition of .
I stopped an application because of that.
When I join a new job, I ātestā (learn) a lot of things.
In my mind I easily highlight the negative ones as ābugsā that annoy me.
It can be about lunch options, commuting time, working hours, staying overtime, flexibility of schedule, places to relax or take a walk around the office, lighting, temperature of the office, availability of the outside air, hardware available, software installed and what I can manage myself, the desk, the chair, accesses to tools platforms, integration with teams/groups, challenge of the tasks given, expectations, stability of the processes/people/product/role, restrictions and fixed mindsets, ability to debate reasonably smart subjects and goal orientation, business value focus on most things we do, reporting management style, role, responsibilities, salary, growth, training internal or external, onboarding, and more.
It takes me a couple of years to either accept that itās a decent job, or hate it/burn-out because of it.