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I got fired from my tech job - by Spencer Elliott

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The narrative I tell people, and the actual one

I got fired from my SWE job at Stripe a month ago. Technically it was a “mutual departure”. They wanted me out, and honestly I get why. I wasn’t performing well enough by their standards, and the team I was on was particularly high-pressure at a company that’s already known to be a sweatshop. The public narrative that I’m telling recruiters: I was moved to a team that wasn’t the one I interviewed for, and it wasn’t a good fit for my working style. This is actually true. The org was restructuring at the time I joined, and I was going to be on a platform team, but was moved to a product…

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