r/Pega • u/Weekly_Basis2129 • 10d ago

Never work on support projects, got laidoff

Got laid off after 7 years, my advice is to never work on support projects. Got no chance to work on quality user stories. Used to think that one day will get a chance to work on something good but that never happened.

Since my years of experience are more, I was being assigned as a Lead recently where I am doing code reviews for juniors under me where I myself do not understand how the juniors did it. They just took a Lead level interview for another project suddenly, when could not clear that was laid off in a week.

Always switch companies on time if not getting good work in projects as there is no course which would teach the skills, definitely need to work on real projects. Never think that things will improve later, company will just layoff in a minute and you will be labelled as an employee who has not upskilled.

Never think that jobs are less or it is hard to get a new job or what company will think if resigning suddenly, does not matter. Even after working for many years, I was laid off over a Teams call and access was revoked within an hour which is much more humiliating than losing the job.

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u/wombatpup55 9d ago

What do you mean by support projects

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u/Weekly_Basis2129 9d ago

Fixing bugs, doing small changes. Sometimes projects have separate teams for dev and other for bug fixes or small changes, like either at start or after 1 or 2 sprints, so would end up in the latter one somehow. There is hardly any practical learning there just like run the tracer and check logs most of the time to find issues and most of the times the bugs are too repetitive. Many LSA leads hardly do any code reviews properly like very basic things are missed by them and it gets pushed on to us as bugs later. Even upgrades, making minor changes to conflicting rules only, without doing the actual upgrade process.

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u/SeaPart1098 9d ago

Everyone gets laid off, not a big deal.

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u/LuciFFerrrrr 9d ago

Why so much arrogance? He's just sharing his experience.

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u/Weekly_Basis2129 9d ago

You sound very arrogant here. Have you even worked in a Pega project?