This is not a rant, just want to see if there are red flags I should be aware of and plan a move internally at G. Manager: > When I take additional / side work (all relevant to the business) outside of my sprint tasks, during stand up, my manager will not add it to the sprint notes (he documents everyone’s yesterday/today tasks). This has happened a few times now, despite him specifically encouraging side projects as ‘thought leadership’. > In our 1:1 he literally asked me if I find having a manager useful and to please provide him feedback. I started months before him so have a lot of business context I don’t expect him to have a few months in, and I like to think I am helpful when asked / pointing them to the right things, instead of being egoistic about ‘knowing more’, but I wonder why he asks this? > During 1:1s he asks me if the team charter is okay, team splits are okay, etc (I am happy to help, but seems like this is his job). He then makes jokes about not being technical at all and having less and less thinking time for deeper work so it’s good I have this. > On the plus side he approved a 20% project immediately and is always happy to help connect me with folk he knows because of his tenure here. Team in general: > We are supposed to be a technical team supporting the business. I have delegated/managed relatively straightforward SQL pieces to a few of my team to help onboard them and they struggle without you literally spelling out the methodology for them. I thought it was because they were new initially, but even after trainings and several projects using the same tables they seem the same. > They ping me 1:1 for help, or book catchup calls to ask me how to solve every problem, but on the team chat if I reply to a question I (typically) get no response. > In a typical 2 week sprint I’m closing ~20 points of (linkable) work and they close ~6 points or less (and I am honestly not sure how points are managed: meetings and help I exclude but they include). The sprint is backdated so I’m comparing the time I was at their tenure to their current tenure. It’s not a competition but the difference is making me think I should say I do less to fit in so I started to not put in all the ‘smaller’ things I do and just document the bigger projects now. I was off for 1 week and the team (of 5) closed 10 points in total removing my work (I closed 8 points). Coming from Amazon my work ethic / bar just may be off skew hence posting this to try to understand what is normal.
I had a project idea and told my manager about the idea. During the team meeting my manager pitched the idea as something we should do (and documented it in our 1:1) but made it sound like it was his thought (no insight that it was my idea). I don’t really care as I have 100 ideas lol but another red flag to me. The stakeholder also reached out about my teammates behaviour and instantly he jumped in my teammates defence claiming work cultural differences / I’ve worked in tech before so am more familiar with how things work. But my teammate worked in tech before also. Don’t get it. Again, didn’t bother reacting, wasn’t worth it.
You love yourself. While I do understand some folks needs handholding and its annoying after a point but not everything is about you. Keep doing good and people will appreciate. If not you will become better leader/mentor and thts invaluable
I don’t mind handholding especially if they are onboarding. I guess I am just expecting some incremental improvements eg going from ‘I have no clue how to do this’ to ‘I tried x but didn’t get y can you explain z’ at least.
So basically, this is just my experience. When we are in comfort zone we judge people differently than when we are in struggling or growth or stagnant phase. You are comfortable and thats why you feel less for others. Trust me it happened with me. I was the best in my last job and felt less for others and judged them and thought they were fools. When I changed my job I found some amazing help and onboarding and reachability and thats were I learned to be humble no matter what. In the end, you can always say no but just try to be humble and respect your time when you help others but refrain from negative emotions or judgments