[i_am_programmer]

It's weird to read this as I started a new role myself 5 weeks ago and after my first week I've had the exact question linger in my mind. I work for a finance company who have outsourced everything to Eastern Europe and now they're trying to rein everything in house but so many things are half-baked and bad practise or simply wrong, meaning everything will eventually need a rewrite. I spend so much time doing nothing because everyone is so frantic running around no one has helped me identify my work load or even assigns tickets. I don't find it possible for me to just figure out what to work on myself.

The people I interviewed with are so nice I would feel some guilt leaving, but the actual technical team I have aren't here and are hard to work with so I wouldn't feel too bad. Although, the older I get the more frequently I remind myself a companies bottom line is themselves. They don't care about you as much as you would ever think so.

I do not think you would be bad for leaving after 5 or 6 months, heck 2 or 3 wouldn't be bad either. Life is short and you legitimately don't owe your time to a company indefinitely. You won't struggle to find other jobs, people can be incredibly understanding and what you are describing isn't uncommon in the software industry IMO. As I am enjoying a similar experience unforutnately