New Job too chill?
Hey all, I joined TikTok recently and it’s been very laid back the first few weeks. I spend my days reading documents (I ask my team daily to send me any sort of resource that they have) but hardly anyone initiates messages with me nor do I know what I’m supposed to be doing yet. This makes me anxious because I worry that I’m falling behind without knowing it, so I have been initialing 1:1s with some people in my team, who also tell me to take it easy. Is this normal during onboarding for TikTok because I heard the opposite from Blind where people get 996. Should I be more proactive and ask my team for assignments or wait for it to happen and just take some time to adjust? And before mentioning that maybe it’s because I came from Amazon, my previous role in Amazon was also very laid back with little workload. I mainly left the role because I wanted more of a challenge as I’m kinda starting my career. TC: 190
You got a bad manager if you have no idea what to do in your first month
Better than no manager haha - my prev. job at Amazon my original manager left and I was left without one for many months.
You could have just hide in a little corner and got a second job. Two pay checks are better than one lol
You will wish it was this laid back in a couple of weeks
How's the internal tooling?
Lol this was the same with me. I joined tik tok from Amazon. Online is horror stories. Inside is nicer. I would say there is a lot of work to do but it’s not a coasting place but at the same time it won’t kill you. Your china based colleagues will be online very late their time but it doesn’t mean you have to
That’s nice to hear- similar situation where my colleagues are based in China
They might just be keeping you calm at first before tossing you into the storm. I had that at zoom. First month was nothing. Then? GO GO GO GO GO late evenings, extra studying needed on weekends ,tight deadlines, crushing processes, blocker blocker blocker, little help or guidance, blah blah etc It was crazy.
I've interviewed many candidates desperately trying to get out of TikTok because of the unsustainable time demands. I would be very curious to see what you think in another month or so.
Give it a bit. It’ll ramp up. I had the same experience in my last few moves. Just enjoy the calm for a bit
Thanks!
Which location? I'm a few weeks old too @ tiktok and i felt like that initially but things quickly changed in a week :D DM me
Chill, it is not Amazon
Is this normal for any non-Amazon company