I was relocated for this job to a hub location but did not work with my team face to face that were located on the other side of the country. During my time on my team as the jr dev, I asked for a lot of help and most times they couldn’t provide me solutions and I end up figuring it out on my own a day later. I keep asking for work because our manager said there was a lot of work to be done but my lead dev assigned me only enablers and barely got any important coding work done besides automation regression testing. In my reviews, my manager said I asked too many repetitive questions (not true) and because I didn’t contribute to our main microservices that I was left with a inconsistently meets. In our 1:1s leading up to mid year review, I consistently asked my manager how to help me get more coding tasks. I’ve also shared some thoughts and feelings about how the team was treating me. What are some things I could do or reframe my thinking so that I’m not feeling spiteful?
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Document your meetings and comments. Send a recap to your manager and at the bottom write in, to save time if you do not reply or acknowledge, it is assumed everything is correct and going well. … then when he/ she pulls this stuff… just confront them with your notes and forward to HR.
Work on your brand and how you are perceived.
Take steps within your control to add tangible value results.
You will figure out the right questions to ask and what not to waste your time on.
I applied to be a mentee but because I got inconsistently meets on my mid year review, I was kicked out of the program. The requirements was to have a meets in review. Kinda harsh, I agree. I’ve heard similar experiences with colleagues that are also jr devs and they were able to move to another team from the support of their manager. TBF, I no longer have to face this challenge as I was laid off last week. I hope no one works with a team of this behavior. If you have, what did you do in navigating through the experience?
Do you have an opportunity to be a mentee for the mentor program? Basically, you need to have conversations with another senior person that isn't on your team.
You’re definitely not the only junior with this problem. Unfortunately Wells has a ton of skeleton crew teams. Lots of experienced staff are too busy/overworked, disengaged, or inept to really engage with juniors. It’s very demoralizing.