I work for Optum Digital (formally Rally Health). I work for a software engineering team and my team lead recently got promoted to manager. Right after he became manager - it has been very hard for me to work as he micro manages and also I get approvals for my PR’s but he puts so many nit picky comments and it just gets hard for me to close a PR and I am not able to close my tickets. Even if I follow the coding standard he comments to it the other way around. He tells me that every PR should be approved by him just for me and I should not get more than 10 comments from both reviewer and myself. He also micro manages about what time I go for lunch and what time I login sometimes. I feel like it’s taking a toll on my mental health. I have never been in a environment like this. I wanna leave this place. I will setup a meeting and just tell him everything and leave the place. I just wanted to share the bitter experience with the company and team at rally Health.
That sounds like a LOT of micromanagement. You should try to change teams or the company.
Don't quit. Simply go to HRBP and complain about the situation. Take FMLA if the tech lead turned manager is causing you depression. Don't spend your own time looking for a job, spend company time.
Take care my brother. Been in your situation and it's stressful. I couldn't sleep or eat well. Every time I push a PR out for review, I used to get anxiety attacks. Even if you don't have a job lined up, just leave and heal your mental health.
Dang that sucks! Can you move teams internally without his person finding out?
Definitely not worth putting up with. Find a better gig, they're out there!
Hey OP I’ve had exactly such an experience at Google of all places and it was exactly as awful as you are describing it. I felt trapped in a cycle of being overworked and unable to see the big picture that I needed to leave. There’s no other solution to this than changing teams or just leaving. Another approach can be telling him politely and firmly that this is not how you want to work, a lot of times these “tech leads” get a power trip from bossing people around but if someone talks back to them they get back in their place. But that might only give temporary respite while you find a new job
100% agree to this, don't just quit until you have something lined up, been there done that
Oh yeah certainly don’t do that, many of us can’t even afford to do that because we are on visa
Newly promoted managers are mostly like this. Leave as soon as possible
I have heard and seen that at various places and it feels like people get put into that role which is a completely different skill set with no training or clear direction on how to become an effective manager
They will pip you soon. Try to find a different manager.
OP provided way too much identification info, better remove those info
leave