Microsoft starting pains
3rd week at MS and having a seriously rough time ramping up. Role is very very different from my last job which was more traditional SWE, this seems to be a more infrastructural role in an azure service. Mentor just tells me to look at files without much background info - and azure architecture is complicated. I feel as if I won’t be able to produce independently for quite a while. I’m also remote, so questions are frequently left unanswered for hours. I’ve never started a new team fully remote before. Has anyone experienced this at MS? Wondering if it’s just slow bc it’s a large company or if I will be pipped (or the MS equivalent) soon. TC: 293 L63 3 yoe
Same everywhere.
Same here
It takes at least 6 months to onboard at my team and at least a year to start writing some code without any help from the team. Unless it’s some student project, I can’t imagine how an onboarding can be faster than a couple of months anywhere.
I wrote code and pushed to prod within the first month at my previous job, it was a much smaller org though. I guess that was unusual, especially compared to one of the largest companies
MS has tons of documents to go over. I started not long ago and I'll be doing prod stuff just after 4-5 months. Go easy, do the ramp up. Eventually things will make sense. All the best.
Thanks
My team is very responsive to new people, but they definitely don’t expect you to be independent for at least a couple of months. It definitely can be overwhelming, but just do what you can and ask questions, even to people not directly on your team if you see they’ve worked on something you need to know about
same here
I guess you're infor a struggle. JK OP, you'll be fine
Same here
Same here. Undergoing PTSD and anxiety due to ramp up times and brash co-workers. Therapy is underway. I also have some other family responsibilities that came up and it’s not helping either. How can I communicate this to my manager without him thinking that I’m not a good fit ?
Yes. Welcome. It's crazy n surprising that how team onboardings are not standardized in this big org. Same happened to me in e+d