Ask HN: Have you ever been called slow? How did you react?
The company adopts an agile methodology (on paper) and seems to expect things will just magically become faster. There are adhoc requests all the time and no filtering.
I'm a new hire trying to master the software stack (a lot of pieces are new to me even with 10+ years in the industry).
This combined with my usual desire to understand what I'm doing, seems to give an impression that I'm slow. In reality, I think my team members have only a shallow understanding of what they do, can't plan long term and, not of their fault, are used to a follow-the-tutorial-and-get-it-done approach. I can't really fault them but this has created a lot of technical debt (which makes my job even harder).
Any tips? I'd like to stay longer and make a lasting impact here but, of course, I could just quit... that wouldn't be ideal.