Comment by jll29
5 days ago
A good smell test for a job that isn't right for you is whether you ask yourself if it is the right job early on, or if you even have thoughts of quitting in the first year/month/week, apart from being overwhelmed by all the new faces.
The only "bad" job that I had was with a very good company (wonderful people, great benefits, just the code absolutely sucked), so that was making the decision very hard to quit. In larger corporations, one might be able to engineer moving departments if that helps.
I remember finding my predecessor's lunch in my desk drawer on the first day at one job. He had left several months before so it definitely failed the smell test.
> The only "bad" job that I had was with a very good company (wonderful people, great benefits, just the code absolutely sucked),
I'm sort of in this situation right now
Lots of good things about the people, the pay, the benefits
But man
We are a "microservice" architecture with something like 5x more git repos than software devs
It's a nightmare