Recently hired as a senior dev. On my first day, setting up and fixing a bug took longer than expected. A few weeks in, I spin my wheels but eventually figure stuff out. I feel like my communication gaps have been off putting and made me appear slow. Some team members are ignoring my direct pings. Even my manager dodges me when pinging sometimes. Feeling reluctant to reach out. No expectations were provided by my manager, nor was any development plan provided. Been trying to figure things out myself. What should I do?
Not a dev, but this is what worked for me. Paraphrasing to fit a dev role. You come up with your own 30/60/90 day plan. That's what you should be doing anyway. First 30 days: meet all relevant stakeholders. Set up time with your PM, EM, skip, XFN partners in QA, devops, peers. Anyone you would have regular interaction with and figure out what they're currently working on, things they hate, and what points of contact you expect to have with them. In the meantime, set up your system and use these meetings to ask the dumb questions. Next 30 days: Using the feedback from getting to know your team, pick out some low priority bugs you'd like to tackle. Confirm with your EM that it's okay to do this and ask them to suggest someone you can go to for help if you get stuck. This way you have an unofficially assigned mentor you're building a relationship with. If you have someone good in mind, suggest that person. Last 30 days: Now that you've tackled a few bugs and generally know what's top of mind for everyone, start participating in dev work during sprints, tech planning, groomings etc. This is where you ease into the flow of being a dev but still have time to ask dumb questions. Those meetings you scheduled in the first 30 days - make them recurring ones every month or so but stagger them out so you don't have a million meetings at the same time.
This is the way. Be proactive and have a bias for action. No one will always hold your hand.
In stand up let the person know you message them. They will never again ignore your slack message. Also in your 1:1 bring it up. Your manager should handle it from there
Also name drop. If you get no response and feel they've ignored you a casual "<<Senior Manager>> is eager to hear about the updates too" will usually get you a reply asap and because they think you are connected well they will hesitate to ignore you further.