It’s Sunday evening. You go to sleep but one thought goes around your head. Tomorrow is your first day in a new team. New projects, team, and opportunities to build cool, useful products and learn new things.
A few hours forward. It’s Monday morning. You start a day with a usual routine: walk with a dog, then go jogging or hit the gym. There are several hours of sitting and standing ahead of you.
It’s time. You open your laptop and log into your new account. Surprisingly all goes smoothly. It’s 10AM. Slack and calendar notifications remind you to click the button and join the meeting.
Welcome to the team. Your new manager greets you. After the introduction of all team members, the ritual starts. JIRA, jira tickets everywhere. As you are not a newbie in the tech game, you listen, watch, analyse and spot behaviour patterns.
Initial excitement fades away. Why? What are the red flags?
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