1) The work you are doing, does it fit well with your background. What I mean to say is, for example my mentor is a software engineer but was working in services team primarily consisting of Environment Engineers and yes all were from Berkeley, Stanford, Waterloo. How much ground do you hold if you are switching to new field against them in this fragile economy.
2) How much relevant work is given to you in the team you are working in, for example, if you are in Services consulting team, you implement software for your clients. Do you get the opportunity to implement and face clients, if others in your team are facing clients and you are put in some mundane work which might be important but not generating revenue for the company, it should raise red flag for you.
3) Do you have the persona to be in that team. What I mean is, do you have a good looking face, easy going liberal personality, willing to accept other person's thoughts and ideas. Some people get in easily because of their GPA or credentials but don't last long.
4) You are plain unlucky, which means nothing is absolute in this world and everything is relative. Even though you are doing your work very well, still things were beyond your control.
5) Your lavish lifestyle which your organization has to pay for it. Like my manager, he was pretty lavish with bi weekly team lunches, buying macs and ipads on company's expense. Then going on holidays, working from home on fridays and not joining intern final get together where all other team managers and CEO was there. These small small things in this fragile economy counts a lot, plus not to mention not even a single reply to many emails wrote to him, in the name of being busy??
