I'm currently going through everything in your article and it's extremely hard to cope with.
I am a mid-senior developer working on the new headquarters of a company that has the main office in a different city. I'm leading two other developers on a project shared with the main office.
I'm 4 months on the job and my motivation is already at 0. We were very happy with the new job and we started suggesting minor changes that would benefit the product in huge ways. We found out that if the suggestions aren't coming from the core team (the people in the project for 2 years now), then it's immediately discarded. I talked to my local team and they are all demotivated as well.
There is zero documentation in the code. The "senior" developers from the main office say if the method name is clear, then we don't need documentation. In simple methods, sure. Today, in the daily meeting, I said: "It took me 4 hours to finally find where the problem was, because the code for X feature is so complex. If we had code documentation, this would all be solved in 15 minutes.". Instead of "Oh, then let's start writting documentation", I got hit by "You need documentation to write for loops?". That was not said in a joking tone. It was said in a tone of hostility.
The other day I talked to a person from a different team and our product owner yelled (yes, yelled histericaly) with me, on the daily meeting, in front of everyone. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT? WHO TOLD YOU TO DO THAT? THAT IS NOT MAPPED IN THE SPRINT TIME". I kept my cool and answered all his questions in a normal voice tone, but WTF?
Not to mention that on our code reviews, the "senior" developers of the main office only write things like: "This is wrong." or "Change this for that.". There is no explanation as to why. There are no links to know more about it. They are not teaching, they are demanding.
If I don't work in a toxic environment, then I am afraid to know what one is.
Thank you very much for your article. I'm glad to know that I'm not alone and I'm not the trouble maker.
P.S. I believe the three of us of the local team are looking for jobs, which is bad for the company, since they took 8 months to find 3 developers that passed their tests and got hired.
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I'm currently going through everything in your article and it's extremely hard to cope with.
I am a mid-senior developer working on the new headquarters of a company that has the main office in a different city. I'm leading two other developers on a project shared with the main office.
I'm 4 months on the job and my motivation is already at 0. We were very happy with the new job and we started suggesting minor changes that would benefit the product in huge ways. We found out that if the suggestions aren't coming from the core team (the people in the project for 2 years now), then it's immediately discarded. I talked to my local team and they are all demotivated as well.
There is zero documentation in the code. The "senior" developers from the main office say if the method name is clear, then we don't need documentation. In simple methods, sure. Today, in the daily meeting, I said: "It took me 4 hours to finally find where the problem was, because the code for X feature is so complex. If we had code documentation, this would all be solved in 15 minutes.". Instead of "Oh, then let's start writting documentation", I got hit by "You need documentation to write for loops?". That was not said in a joking tone. It was said in a tone of hostility.
The other day I talked to a person from a different team and our product owner yelled (yes, yelled histericaly) with me, on the daily meeting, in front of everyone. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT? WHO TOLD YOU TO DO THAT? THAT IS NOT MAPPED IN THE SPRINT TIME". I kept my cool and answered all his questions in a normal voice tone, but WTF?
Not to mention that on our code reviews, the "senior" developers of the main office only write things like: "This is wrong." or "Change this for that.". There is no explanation as to why. There are no links to know more about it. They are not teaching, they are demanding.
If I don't work in a toxic environment, then I am afraid to know what one is.
Thank you very much for your article. I'm glad to know that I'm not alone and I'm not the trouble maker.
P.S. I believe the three of us of the local team are looking for jobs, which is bad for the company, since they took 8 months to find 3 developers that passed their tests and got hired.