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Why I left Wipro

Wipro was probably my most confortable job that I ever had. I WFH, had options for work schedule(it varied every 2 weeks and I could choose or at least suggest), the job was quite easy and the paid was great.

There were different things that made me left, most important were:

  1. Nowhere to grow: I was the only guy on my city, most of them were on CDMX, the team was close and got along well(at least from my point of view) but I didn’t feel there was a career path for us, it was just solving tickets and that’s it.
  2. It was WLS job; with micro-services, working with something as WLS didn’t allowed me to keep up-to-date with the industry
  3. Free-time wasn’t defined as well: there was a calendar for wipro for holidays but since we worked for another company, the calendar wasn’t the same and we didn’t get a headsup with time(even less than 24h), also weekend shifts were scheduled every Wednesday,.
  4. Better job offer: More vacations days, lead position ,using new technologies, new team.

Places where I have applied for jobs

A mechanics’ teacher of one of my dearest friends once told all his class that she started 3 master but didn’t complete any of them…he wasn’t so happy to know about but that’s beside the point.

In the spirit of showcase that the CV is just the prettiest side of your job historial, I will make a list of all the places I have applied for a job regardless I got the job or not:

Year Company Output
Beginning 2011 Professor UDG Got the job
Beginning 2011 Professor Proulex Got the job
Beginning 2013 Oracle
Did 3 interviews, got 2 offers
Beginning 2013 IBM
Not even got a screening interview
Late 2015 EPAM
Got offer, rejected it
Mid 2015 Amdocs Got rejected
Mdi 2015 Oracle Got the job
Beginning 2018 Google
Not even got a screening interview
Late 2017 MyTaxi@Germany
Didn’t complete code challenge, I declined but company still interested
Mid 2018 Baxter
Got offer, asked more before accepting and didn’t heard back from them
Mid 2018 Baires dev Got rejected
Mid 2018 Oracle Got rejected
Mid 2018 MBA Teacher @ UDG
Got a job, not the same I applied
Beginning 2019 EPAM
Not even got a screening interview
Beginning 2019 Oracle
Got offer, rejected it
Beginning 2019 HCL Got rejected
Mid 2019 Professor@ITESO Not even got a screening interview
Beginning 2019 Wipro
Got the offer, accepted
Beginning 2019 Amdocs
Got offer, rejected it due to already accepted Wipro
Beginning 2019 TCS
Got offer, rejected it due to already accepted Wipro
Beginning 2019 Crossover
Applied to several positions, passed some filters, got rejected due to positions required more than initially stated
Mid 2019 Teacher @ Ms DS in UDG Got the job
Late 2019 Amdocs
Got offer and accepted =)

 

I might have left some out, probably one or two that don’t stand out.

Remember my policy about interviews, if they first contact you, you take the interview and then decide if its a good move or not.

Why I left Oracle

I loved Oracle, I met wonderful people there, had the best boss ever, got the chance to interact with experts on their fields and learned a lot from them.

I moved majorly because salary, when I joined I was being payed what I believe it was the top compensation for a recent grad, which was great, years passed I referred alumni to Oracle and they joined, they told me how happy they were to join and eventually we shared salaries, I was happy to know they were being payed what I believe was the top compensation for a recent grad…but they were making more money than me (nothing wrong with that, nothing against them) or my colleagues than joined at the same time, so I decided to explore the market again and saw that I could make more in another company, when I finally decided to make the move I increase little more than twice my monthly salary and almost twice the yearly one.

There were another minor factors, that were there couple of years before of that but none as important as that one.

I still love Oracle and think is a great company to be, maybe we will cross paths again, who knows.

Why I left Proulex

I loved this job, the paid was good(better than university), benefits were goods schedule was great and most of the time I got amazing students.

The thing was that at that time I decided I wanted to do a Ms in software engineering  that required 2 years of experience on the industry, so I decided to jobhunt and since I will be at least another 2 years on GDL, I decided to take an MBA…so it was too much, working on the industry teaching part time and studying an MBA, something had to go away and Proulex got the short straw

Why I left CUCEI

From Feb 2006 to Jun 2019, I went every “academic” week to CUCEI, first as student then as a teacher. My student run went from Feb 2006 to Dec 2011, and my teacher run from Feb 2011 to June 2019.

I loved going there every single time, there I met some wonderful people, including my wife and some of dearest friends, some that were my professors, then peers and eventually friends

I finally decided to left CUCEI because I live  10 min away from CUCEA and at least 40 min away from CUCEI; I loved teaching but going there was 160 min a week of my driving, so, for the time being I decided to just teach at CUCEA

Are you selling or buying???

Continuing with the last interview I had, apparently the main interviewer wasn’t aware that he was the one selling and not buying

He was the one putting all the objections, to everything, I think he didn’t realized that it was him that needed me and not the other way around, he needs to fill a position that doesn’t have a lot of demand and face a scarcity of talent; and well I’m top talent =)

Sometimes when somebody has some kind of power they believe that they stopped selling and now they will always be the buyers, and that’s kind of true, as long as the other party feels that the so called seller has all the power and not the other way around.

Dress code: formal

I had an interview that required that I was dressed formal, so I suit up!

If an interview requires something like that from you, is expected that the other party complies too, here it wasn’t the case. There were 3 interviewers, the main one and 2 invited. Main one had a tie, shirt and a sweater; other one were ladies that were dressed business casual…they were invited and probably the not let known about the dress code by the main one,so I can live with that.

Talking about giving a bad first impression right from the start, a leader should never request something (s)he can’t deliver.