Before my previous team got disbanded and I was forced merged into this team. My lead and what I sought as mentor said "just be aware when you join this team you'll have to be able to work hard on your own" and I can definitely see why and that's what I have unfortunately had to do
1. 2 Contractors who work primarily on decommissioning work
2. One engineer who is just lazy and doesn't help
3. The original lead for the team left within a few months of me joining the team, so now it's basically me and two new people on the team.....
4. I'm basically the owner of two services and have a huge knowledge of the platform in general since I've been there 2 years. So I basically get pulled in a lot of different things
There's also the fact a timing issue where with a major release I was being pulled a ton to help with multiple issues/incidents. I've personally tried my best to help new people get onboarded, but everytime I try to do something right there is another incident, this is a higher priority, blah blah blah. So, I've suggested several things for the team to do. Some hopefully will work. It's a vicious cycle that I've mentioned and started to try to break out of recently
I think the main thing here is talk to our manager. I can't be the only one pushing for helping onboarding as it's not enough weight in comparison to an incident. Next is give it more time. If you aren't happy then, I'd leave too, I get it
I figured they were hiring for a different team I was going to be on. This same team has been said it will be spun for a couple months and still hasn't because we don't have the people. I didn't know about the terms of your hiring until you told me recently and it's definitely shitty, but something our manager/director should be handling. This is a brand new platform just released so we are still getting everything pieced together for structure, etc. So, to give promises like that is bad. This is definitely not the norm across the company. You could've joined a more veteran platform and been up to speed more quickly
The positives I'd say is opportunity growth since it's a new platform and lacking people if you can stick with it
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1. 2 Contractors who work primarily on decommissioning work
2. One engineer who is just lazy and doesn't help
3. The original lead for the team left within a few months of me joining the team, so now it's basically me and two new people on the team.....
4. I'm basically the owner of two services and have a huge knowledge of the platform in general since I've been there 2 years. So I basically get pulled in a lot of different things
There's also the fact a timing issue where with a major release I was being pulled a ton to help with multiple issues/incidents. I've personally tried my best to help new people get onboarded, but everytime I try to do something right there is another incident, this is a higher priority, blah blah blah. So, I've suggested several things for the team to do. Some hopefully will work. It's a vicious cycle that I've mentioned and started to try to break out of recently
I think the main thing here is talk to our manager. I can't be the only one pushing for helping onboarding as it's not enough weight in comparison to an incident. Next is give it more time. If you aren't happy then, I'd leave too, I get it
I figured they were hiring for a different team I was going to be on. This same team has been said it will be spun for a couple months and still hasn't because we don't have the people. I didn't know about the terms of your hiring until you told me recently and it's definitely shitty, but something our manager/director should be handling. This is a brand new platform just released so we are still getting everything pieced together for structure, etc. So, to give promises like that is bad. This is definitely not the norm across the company. You could've joined a more veteran platform and been up to speed more quickly
The positives I'd say is opportunity growth since it's a new platform and lacking people if you can stick with it
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