India, March 12 -- An AI automation engineer has shared how being fired just 3 days into a job by an IIT-educated founder turned out to be an unexpected turning point in her career.

In an Instagram video, Ritu Maurya said she was dismissed during her first week after being criticised by the founder in front of a client. She said that the founder had promised hands-on mentorship during the hiring process but was largely unavailable once she joined.

"Just two days into the job. there were a lot of things I did not know, and he had mentioned that he would be the one guiding me, but he was nowhere to be found," she said in the video. Maurya added that the founder often responded to her messages hours later and did not get on calls to help h...