Bengaluru Startup Fires Techie Via Text in Just 2.5 Months of Joining

A Bengaluru fresher recently shared his shocking job termination experience on Reddit’s “DevelopersIndia" community. He joined the firm with 6 months of internship experience that fired him over a text message. The user wrote he was “confused and defeated" after the startup terminated him in less than three months.

Techie opens up about unexpected job termination

“After working for 2.5 months, I received a message out of nowhere from a board member saying they couldn’t continue with me," he regretted.

Within a week of joining, the techie was assigned an internal project where 70 percent of the work was backend-related, although he joined as a front-end developer.

Sharing his experience he elaborated, “I joined a startup in Bengaluru as a fresher with 6 months of internship experience, starting as a frontend developer. But soon after joining, I was asked to take on full-stack responsibilities. While I was excited to learn, I didn’t have any prior experience with backend development."

“Some tasks were manageable, but I encountered errors I couldn’t solve, including issues that magically resolved themselves the next day. I conveyed every problem I faced in the project’s Slack channel, as instructed. Sometimes I got a response, other times I didn’t," he reasoned.

He also shared that the reviews would take around three to four days, causing work delays. However, he was blamed for the delays.

“This has left me feeling lost,” the techie admitted. “I’m reflecting on what I could’ve done better and wondering if I was set up for failure by being assigned tasks I wasn’t experienced enough to handle.”

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Since he turned to Reddit for suggestions after being laid off, many professionals offered advice.

One user wrote, “Don’t take it personally to the degree that it affects your self-confidence. End of the day they were bad managers themselves that they had no plan in hand and it has come down to this. Use this experience to spot red flags when you find your next company."

“It was a startup, they tend to overwork employees and mostly who stays and who leaves is decided by the upper management which has 0 technical knowledge. Not your fault. It’s just if you had become a full time and gained some experience it would have been good. But then what to do, fate. Find another one and try not to mess up this time," another said.

A third user commented,, “Same thing happened to me. Startup, joined as a fresher, was asked to take on full responsibilities fairly soon. And then in 2 months, they let me go. But the only difference was they were upfront and said we needed a senior guy who could deliver immediately. Bro, it hit my confidence hard I was damn depressed. You have to remember, a bad decision on their part isn’t reflective of you. Learn, build projects, apply and go on and become a fantastic dev. You got this."

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