Timeline for Does my workplace lack guidance or is it my lack of skills?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 21, 2019 at 19:35 | comment | added | Aaron F | Oh no. I just realised something. The OP has a degree in mechanical engineering... The startup wanted a machine learning specialist... What do you get if you want someone to work on a machine ? Oh. Yes. Oh yes. Yes, you do... :( | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 17:44 | comment | added | Barmar | In a small startup, it's likely that everyone is flying by the seat of their pants. The techies who started the company should have a good grasp of their core technology, but beyond that there's lots of improvisation and figuring it out as you go. | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 17:19 | comment | added | alephzero | The only useful transferrable skill you learn in college is "how to learn." If the OP didn't learn that, he/she doesn't have the required skill set for any tech job. If the company wanted to hire somebody who needed hand-holding every step of the way, they might as well have taken a high-school leaver, not a university graduate. | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 12:44 | comment | added | Sourav Ghosh | @JoeStrazzere Oh, and I already suggested OP to reach out to their manager seeking for help and training, as required. However, I still feel, it's the manager who should have done this, not some random stranger from the internet. | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 12:43 | comment | added | Sourav Ghosh | @JoeStrazzere Not necessarily disagree, but usually what I have encountered is to assign a mentor in a team for the new joiner, and assign them some work, so they know whom they need to reach out to. Nobody knows everything, and if we're talking about freshers, they can use a little more guidance than what OP had here. Sure, make them face challenges, but make sure they're aware of the means to overcome them. Making them feel helpless by leaving them all alone is not going any good, IMHO. | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 12:34 | history | edited | Sourav Ghosh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2019 at 12:33 | comment | added | Sourav Ghosh | @JoeStrazzere in that case I'd assume that the company does not have a resource pool allocated. would you randomly pull someone and stat assigning random work to them, without knowing their abilities first? also, OP said they were put on to the project, so it does not appear as a choice from OP, either. | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 10:11 | comment | added | Nimesh Neema | Concise and to the point advise! | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 9:31 | history | answered | Sourav Ghosh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |