Busy team with what seemed like a high turnover rate
Pros
Everything seems flexible in the beginning. There's a good amount of PTO and a good salary. I was hired straight out of college and was initially very excited. I felt I learned a lot, although very demanding.
Cons
My team didn't always feel very cohesive. There was a bit of tension between managers and the engineers. My interviewer forgot about me during one of my initial screenings and a totally different person showed up in the last 5 minutes after I had already waited 25 minutes. I was told that I'd be working in the offices in Birmingham, and then once I was hired, I was told I'd be working somewhere completely different, which messed with the plans I had made and the time I spent trying to relocate. I ended up getting fired after I missed three consecutive days, but hear me out, I told my manager I was having trouble traveling back home after Thanksgiving in the morning of the second day and that I'd need to use some PTO (this is the last text I sent him and he never reached out to me again). My family had a work emergency and they weren't able to drive me back home right away. My manager knew that my car had been totaled the week before, and I thought everything would be fine. Took the most expensive Lyft ride of my life and got home on the afternoon of the third day and tried to sign in, but I was already locked out. When I spoke with HR, they only seemed concerned about me returning my work laptop. My manager never reached out to me afterwards. I've had a lot of trouble finding a job since, and I had to break the lease on the apartment I had and it's still affecting me financially. Overall, very unfortunate. I loved my team and genuinely wanted to leave an impact. Some have even agreed to be references, but I think taking this job was a big mistake and has made my life harder in the long run. I accept my responsibility in how things turned out too. It could have been easily avoided. I just didn't know better at the time.