What to do when you don't like your team?
Background
I have nearly 8 years of experience including internships. Last 7-8 years I was working in fast faced companies and Startups.
This is my Day 4 at my new company as SSE.
Issues:
- In hiring manager round, he informed me that its not customer facing team but horizontal team which is needed for the company.
- In intro meeting, when i asked about home office setup, he said that u can take it if needed but anyway there won't be big code to view in monitor.
My team is not customer facing team and we won't be using actual data of customers. Its just internal team for internal employees
Current Situation
- All engineers are new. We all have similar years of experience
- We have 1-2 staff engineer for the entire org.
- Getting married in next 6 weeks. So can't do job shift again immediately.
Question
My expectation before joining here is to become Staff software engineer in next 1 and half years by following everything mentioned in Taro. but looking at current work and team I'm confused about my next steps.
How should I approach this situation? What should I do to become staff software engineer here? Should I leave the company? I suspect team shift can be possible at this moment.
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Discussion
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a month agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course HeroFirst off, don't think about leaving the company - You are literally just 4 days in and LinkedIn is one of the greatest tech companies in the world. Based on your context, I assume you're working at LinkedIn India - I don't know about the pay there, but in the US, LinkedIn pays top-of-market. It's an amazing place to work for that most engineers can't even get into.
Go get married first (congrats!), and after you come back, settle in and try to meet as many people as possible to understand the organization. Follow the advice from here:
- The Complete Onboarding Guide For Software Engineers
- [Masterclass] How To Build Deep Relationships Quickly In Tech
It generally takes 1-2 months to build a meaningful understanding of an organization, especially at a senior/staff level.
All that being said, it does seem like your team is working on an internal tool without a ton of scope. Big Tech companies are filled with these teams like these. These teams aren't inherently bad though as they often have a huge benefit that you have identified: Work-life balance.
Being able to work 9AM - 3PM in this economy for a company as prestigious as LinkedIn is an opportunity many engineers would kill for. Yes, it's not likely you can get to Staff on this team (certainly not in 1.5 years), but being able to have so much free time outside of work is a huge asset.
If it turns out that you really can't stand this team after 3-6 months, you can talk to your manager about doing an internal transfer. LinkedIn is a huge company with thousands of great teams - It's much better (and easier) to switch internally than to job hop entire companies from my experience.
- 0a month agoSenior Software Engineer [L4] [OP]LinkedIn
Thank you Alex. You just gave a different perspective to my issue.
