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For instance, I've been shopping around for a new job and had a CTO of a decent sized ~30 person engineering team told me during the interview that their standards for testing is "get it working" and "test on staging." If basic unit tests are a luxury around here, how do you expect to grow and become better devs over time?
What does your manager/iteration manager think? Are they feeding you the same feedback? It's only a matter of time until it bubbles up to them so figuring out a plan might be appropriate.
When I first joined, I was working on a decent-sized project that required interfacing with other teams. My mode of development has always been to ask lots of questions, even if they're "dumb". I like "dumb" questions because it gets everyone on the same page, and it narrows the conversation. It's worked out really well in the past; I really believe in communicating early and often. During my first week, I started do…
I just emailed the manager and said based on the first interaction with this particular team member it wasn't going to be a good fit for me and left on day 2.
Some people just don't like to collaborate and they want your hands out of their sandcastle.
You should probably examine really closely why they do this. My hypotheses are: 1. They are doing it to purposely be unproductive. It's like in school where kids would ask the smartest kids in the class to bring down the grading curve by telling them to relax or hang out more. 2. They see you as a threat. This could be for the above reason, it could be because of your background. The hazing and insulting comments sup…
It might be a layer below the surface, and they probably do not feel like they are doing this on purpose.