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Paypal Hello, I've been offered Data engineer /Software Engineer at PayPal, india.
How's the company doing, is it profitable? Bit skeptical about the recent layoffs at PayPal.
Any data engineers at PayPal around? Whats your thoughts, how's the team doing and how would be the growth?
YOE - 5 TC offered : 19 Base +10k RSU (3 years)
TC seems to be a lowball, but that's their budget, no scope of negotiation.
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I have been fired. 1. Nobody ever needs to know that and 2. I landed a much better gig right after which completely changed the trajectory of my career.
I got sort of canned from a very corporate gig. They had me freelancing for a year and a half and then passed on me for a FT role.
Been freelancing short term gigs for a bit. My book gets me gigs. My resume helps. And my supervisor from the corporate gig still loves me.
Be a good person, do good work, and you'll be fine.
Start looking now. Budgets are approved and I'm getting calls like crazy right now.
Getting fired can be the best thing that ever happens to you.
Was it for you?
Fired 20 years ago because I “took a lunch break that was too long.” Coincidentally, this happened the day after I told a coworker I was planning on resigning by the end of the week. You can’t trust anybody. I think my boss tried to beat me to the punch out of ego. In subsequent interviews, I never said why I left, I just lied. It was so long ago now, that the place isn’t even on my resume. So it’s like it never happened.
D5 was founded only 13 years ago. So .... no 🙃
I’ve been fired once. Literally the best thing that has ever happened to me. I’ve had no issues since then.
In interviews I’ve learned to connect it back to my biggest weakness - I am poor at playing politics. I treat an intern’s idea with the same respect as a CMO’s, and vice versa. If I think a CMO’s idea is poor, I’m not afraid to speak up to them directly about my concerns. In this particular case, they did not appreciate my choice to speak up or disagree.
Now I only work with agencies that treat ALL of their employees with the same level of respect and provides everybody with a voice and use this situation as a vetting strategy.
Oh man I’m the same. Pisses all the wrong people off. Where is a safe place to work for folks like us?
Twice. First two jobs. 15 years later, I enjoy when they hit me up for help on LinkedIn.
Funny, this came up just yesterday, because I ran into two of my former co-workers from this shop I’m about to mention.
. Only time I ever got fired was from accentmarketing. The owner brought me and an Argentine copywriter into the agency to boost their creative output.
We got to work and he’d come around and compliment us on the work (most of which never got produced, of course).
But we butted heads with the account director for Chevrolet EVERY SINGLE DAY. That woman was so square, she had FIVE 90° angles.
Ine day, I got called into the president’s office and was told I was being fired. (The copywriter has already given up and bailed.) No warning, no severance, no nothing. There was no misbehavior on my part - zero.
I got hired for more money at a Leo Burnett shop, immediately, and won a Lion and a bunch of other stuff.
Fired once for forcing my company to honor my contract and fired at next place for reporting a VP for sexual harassment and abusing my direct reports. Wound up starting my own biz where im far happier
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Literally the best thing that happened for my career.
Fired last year. Now currently make literally double. That means I can retire in half the time.
Fired during a merge... “We don’t need your services any longer. You’ll get a 3 month severance package.”
That was almost 6 years ago. I was married for a less than a month. I started my own gig and never looked back!
That’s being laid off.
I was fired once from an in-house position. Nobody knows. I never should have been hired in the first place, very poor upper management, and they blamed marketing for all of their product problems. I saw the writing on the wall and had a job offer within one week of being let go.
Just wanted to add:
One of my teachers at Miami Ad School used to tell us if we didn’t get fired once, we weren’t trying hard enough.
I don’t agree we should misbehave and act like asses. We SHOULD get fired, in those cases.
But sitting in a corner and not speaking up when an agency is pushing out boring drivel isn’t going to help anyone.
If you’re going to get tossed, go out with some dignity, don’t compromise anyone else’s and get a better job, once you do.
My .02.
Fired without reason. Since I’m in a very small market, half the agencies already knew I was fired. I couldn’t land a better salary at my next job, but I landed at a much better agency. (I could’ve waited a bit for a better salary at a big network sweatshop, but I liked the independent and creative shop a lot more)
I got fired from an agency doing the tier 2 work for an automotive account. Several years later, I got hired by the agency doing the tier 1 work for that same account. And my CDs from the old agency were still on the account. But now they can’t do shit but use my ideas to influence their work.
Got walked from my dream agency and was told by one of the CDs that "I wasn't good enough". Still kind of haunts me every now and then when I'm in a slump creatively. Got a gig the week after for more money, and am working on some really good award winning work in the pipeline. Would love to snub them at Cannes one day.
I got laid off the day I was going to give my notice. I already had packed up my stuff/cleaned out my desk and was waiting until EOD. Then I was called in. I took the axe because I wanted the severance. I already had another job lined up so I was happy and upbeat about getting let go which confused them. Place was toxic and unbearable (plus it did bad work) so it was a welcome change. Didn’t affect anything career-wise as far as I know.
I was fired once. I found out my new supervisor was over billing the client and had been for years. When pressured to continue the practice, I said no. I was fired a few days later.
Missed your shot at whistle blower retirement plan
I’ve been fired and laid off and always landed in a better place.