r/Glasgow Tools

JP Morgan. Straight out of uni, raring to go on a software team. I think I got the worst one in the place. Working with internal tech, there wasnt really anything I could learn online about it, so I assumed team members would be happy to help me learn. They were not. I was given in trouble for asking too many questions. I just panicked all the time about not knowing what I was doing and got such minimal feedback.

It really freaked me out, I thought I had wasted years at uni, if this is what software dev was like. I seriously considered going and begging for my old retail job back.

Some of the team were so nasty. There was a middle aged woman who had retrained as a software dev and all the men would rip the piss out of her. She had a hospital appointment once and I heard one of the guys joke that he hoped it was something serious. Managers would not pull up on shit like this. She bounced not long before me.

Everyone who worked there seemed to have been there for ten years or less than two. I guess it depends what you're wiling to put up with for money.

Couldn't deal, dropped out of their grad scheme and the manager was so upset he reassigned me for the notice period. Did more work and learned more things in the last two weeks than the whole "graduate scheme" 🤦‍♀️ Every job I've had since has taught me so much and I love being a software dev. Truly just the worst job to start with I could have had.