Hired at 11 AM, Fired at 2 PM - My Startup Story

Today(8th Aug) was one of the wildest days of my life.

At 11 AM, I was told I’d be hired as a full-time Frontend Developer after completing 3 months of internship. I felt relieved — all the late nights, deadline , and work on responsive UIs finally seemed worth it.

By 2 PM, the founders called me in and said:

“You only worked on frontend. We now want a full-stack developer. You’ll need to do 2 more months of internship to learn backend… and maybe we’ll hire you after that.”

I reminded them my role was clearly defined as frontend from day one. I asked, “What if after 2 months you still don’t hire me?”

That was enough for the CEO to get angry and say: