Ask HN: I may have made a mistake taking this job. What's next?
While it's true that there is mountains of data and the pay is good, it turns out there was a lot of intangibles that I didn't really consider... an absurdly slow and incompetent IT department that refuses to install the tools I need to do my job, less than subpar workstation/setup, constant distractions, constantly putting out fires due to a patchwork and extremely poorly designed codebase,etc.
While I completely acknowledge that I should have taken things like this into greater consideration when I was interviewing, I'm beginning to have some real second thoughts. I've talked to my manager about some of these things, but I'm not really sure how much he can do, or if any of these things will be changing in the near future.
Has anyone experienced a similar situation somewhat early into a new position, and if so how did you handle it? I've been contacted by other companies and recruiters but was concerned about leaving so soon and how that would reflect on me, but am unsure how to proceed.