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You make it sound like the author did something wrong. Accepting a job and finding after 5 months that, for whatever reason, it's not your thing is pretty OK is it? Better to quit quick than stick around unhappy.

It's not a 3 man company, you know. If they are interviewed and hired as Frontend (React) Developer in organization of that scale, they might expect to actually do what they are qualified to do.

> imho, they should have expected that, since Shopify is a known Ruby shop

Why is there always the tendency to blame the person and NOT the company?

Such a tendency is not on display here. This is like accepting a job at NASA and assuming you’re going into space.

> known

If you apply for a role that is explained to you, what does it matter what the company mostly does? If I apply to a rail maintenance company as a programmer, should I expect to maintain rail? No.

CP Rail anecdotally does this with a lot of its office staff in case of a strike.