I got a reply from a recruiter to setup a call later this week. I know one of the inevitable questions will be why am I looking to leave my current role.
Personally I want to leave because:
- I have a junior role in the company and I don’t see a way of reaching a mid level here.
- The targets for promotion are constantly moving. The managers have changed a few times over the past 4 years and so have the appraisal systems.
- I haven’t been given any real projects since the last manager has started. Mainly whack-a-mole type security tasks. This is especially frustrating as I have worked on larger projects before then.
- lots of senior engineers have joined, introduced a new product/application, and then left.
- which leads to lots of firefighting and understanding how things were implemented due to the seniors poor documentation.
- so I’m learning nothing on the job and I’m not working on anything special to talk about.
So would something like ‘looking for new opportunities’ be sufficient?
Ps. If you got this far, thanks for reading my rant. It has been locked away in my head for some time now.
The truth, in a way that isn’t overly critical of my current employer and emphasizes what I hope to get from a new opportunity. I take it less as “what’s wrong with the company you’re leaving” and more “what are you looking for from a company you’re interested in jumping to”, which has very similar answers but focuses on the positive and also gives them actually relevant information that they can use to help you. They can connect the dots that the reason you’re looking for that is because you’re not finding it there, without you having to trash a company yourself.