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by yellow_lead 48 days ago
You joined only a month ago? It sounds like you suggested changes too quickly. Egos may be hurt by the new guy saying "you're doing everything wrong."

Poltics goes a long way in this. You need to make others happy first and build up some goodwill first. If you want to tough it out here, do this first, make some allies, and then slowly suggest changes.

Don't suggest to everyone at once, try to build consensus for your changes one engineer at a time. Ideally you'd make friends with the lead or others you can pitch to first privately.

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>You joined only a month ago? It sounds like you suggested changes too quickly. Egos may be hurt by the new guy saying "you're doing everything wrong."

I agree on the politics but also this org intentionally hired an ex-big-tech engineer, I would have high expectations for that person and throw them at stuff that would make the dev-ex improve and solve the foundational issues with the app. Not just making them a bug-fixer and threaten them about their job if they don't meet some arbitrary PR metric.