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Discussion on: What are some red flags to look out for in the first few weeks of a new dev job?

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Derek D • Edited

Reading through the comments on this, apparently almost every job I've had had lots of red flag 🤣

I don't know that all of these are necessarily "red flags" for me. Many of the points brought up are things that could be easily changed with some effort. I think the real red flag with some of these would be, mentioning them to your boss and them not realizing or caring about the need for them to change.

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

I’m quite an optimist at times, but it’s not easy to change corporate culture. It takes a lot of effort to change. Sometimes all it can take is one team changing things and demonstrating the benefit, then a VP takes notice and sends out an edict from on high “We’re all changing!”. If there is no one hands on to facilitate the change, then it will fail. Some teams will bulk at the change, it needs to come from within to really be effective.