How soon is too soon to quit?

I’m not at Mailchimp anymore, but the company I’m at, which I’ve been at for three weeks and will remain nameless, is a joke. During the interviews, they made it sound like I’d be doing cool, engaging work, building up a lot of infrastructure and whatnot, but the reality is an ineffective, gridlocked, bureaucratic nightmare. The management is so bad that I’ve spent the last two weeks doing literally nothing because not only was there no onboarding and no documentation, but the people with the necessary knowledge to transfer are too busy and don’t give a crap about me. I’ve talked to my manager, and he’s spread way too thin to be of much help. He has 30 direct reports (!) and is overseeing four or five different projects. The last deployment meeting I went to (as a bystander, as I was too new to participate) with our team and a big client was literally four separate instances of failure and miscommunication. I was embarrassed on their behalf, even though I had nothing to do with it. Separately from that, one of the first coworkers I’ve worked with on anything casually dropped some inappropriately political/controversial things in our meeting that were upsetting to me. I’d like to mention it to my manager, but I can barely get meetings with him, and when I can, time is limited and there are more important things to discuss. So what should I do, Blind? Do I stick around for my requisite 6-12 months or do I line up another job and bail? Or something else entirely? #engineering #quit #career