Hey folks,
My situation: I started a new job for almost a week now and I'm already entertaining vague notions of leaving.
On the plus side, the compensation is more than generous. The nature of the position itself will also look impressive for my career if I do stick around and stay. The company is poised to be acquired inside of a rather short timeline (< 3 years) as there are very large firms dependent on products we produce. The company itself is cash positive at ~6M/yr. The reason these last 2 points matter is I have received equity as part of my compensation package(it is still a fair package without equity though).
On the minus side, the work environment is borderline hostile. The worst part is that the people are just unrelatable to me. Maybe 3 people there seem to have the ability to crack a smile and we get along peachy. Everyone else seems to feel they're too cool to be happy or even polite. I've also inherited a minor nightmare of an infrastructure. No standards or procedures to speak of really and virtually the whole kit and caboodle needs to be overhauled because of failure points and scalability issues. This isn't a problem in and of itself. I've dealt with and fixed worse before, but the thing is, I'm definitely going to piss off a platoon of these people. I very nearly started a riot on day 4 by stating developers shouldn't have access to production database clusters.
I was thinking that a week of employment isn't really enough to make a judgement, but how long would be reasonable to stay before resigning would harm my search for employment elsewhere? Am I crazy for even staying past a week considering my notions thus far? Should I just suck it up and be a pariah until I can cash out on my equity?
My situation: I started a new job for almost a week now and I'm already entertaining vague notions of leaving.
On the plus side, the compensation is more than generous. The nature of the position itself will also look impressive for my career if I do stick around and stay. The company is poised to be acquired inside of a rather short timeline (< 3 years) as there are very large firms dependent on products we produce. The company itself is cash positive at ~6M/yr. The reason these last 2 points matter is I have received equity as part of my compensation package(it is still a fair package without equity though).
On the minus side, the work environment is borderline hostile. The worst part is that the people are just unrelatable to me. Maybe 3 people there seem to have the ability to crack a smile and we get along peachy. Everyone else seems to feel they're too cool to be happy or even polite. I've also inherited a minor nightmare of an infrastructure. No standards or procedures to speak of really and virtually the whole kit and caboodle needs to be overhauled because of failure points and scalability issues. This isn't a problem in and of itself. I've dealt with and fixed worse before, but the thing is, I'm definitely going to piss off a platoon of these people. I very nearly started a riot on day 4 by stating developers shouldn't have access to production database clusters.
I was thinking that a week of employment isn't really enough to make a judgement, but how long would be reasonable to stay before resigning would harm my search for employment elsewhere? Am I crazy for even staying past a week considering my notions thus far? Should I just suck it up and be a pariah until I can cash out on my equity?