u/AriacBlank

Hi all, I'm a new UI/DevOps developer, one month into a job at a fairly large company. I have a meeting tomorrow with my manager and our dev manager to talk about my onboarding and learning plan going forward, and I don't know how to approach this without sounding needy/unconfident.

Some background: There hasn't really been a structured training period. My manager and director gave me a directive to learn the DevOps side of things - specifically how to publish our web code, since no one on the US side currently knows how to do this. I brought this up in a 1-on-1 (asking if more structured training was coming), and my manager suggested I set up this meeting.

Since then, I've been trying to shadow the dev manager. He walked me through the repo structure on day one, then told me to learn Colima/Kubernetes on my own. I feel like I've got a background of colima/kubernetes and our overall CD flow now, but when I asked about next steps, he said there's nothing new for me to work on right now. I'd really like to actually see him publish web code, or see other tasks that would teach me the parts I'm still missing, or learn how to on my own somehow.

On the UI side, I've been told I'm making too many commits (even though I was only doing one commit per ticket - still not totally sure what the issue was), PRs, and that I need to run any UI changes by the team before making them for the rest of this sprint. I worked in a startup for my last role so I'm more used to making changes quickly. So it would be nice if I could be paired up with a senior dev on a couple of projects before going solo next sprint so I can see their workflow and how they interact with the rest of the team. Shadowing someone for a day or two would be ideal, but I'm the only US-based member of the UI team, so time zones make that tricky.

Ideally I'd walk away with an actual structured learning plan, but I think the team is stretched too thin to dedicate time to teaching me. Things should be slowing down next sprint so maybe they could? I'm not sure how other companies go about this.

So how should I approach this meeting and ask for more training without coming across as needy or unconfident?

Hi all, I'm a new UI/DevOps developer, one month into a job at a fairly large company. I have a meeting tomorrow with my manager and our dev manager to talk about my onboarding and learning plan going forward, and I don't know how to approach this without sounding needy/unconfident.

Some background: There hasn't really been a structured training period. My manager and director gave me a directive to learn the DevOps side of things - specifically how to publish our web code, since no one on the US side currently knows how to do this. I brought this up in a 1-on-1 (asking if more structured training was coming), and my manager suggested I set up this meeting.

Since then, I've been trying to shadow the dev manager. He walked me through the repo structure on day one, then told me to learn Colima/Kubernetes on my own. I feel like I've got a background of colima/kubernetes our overall CD flow now, but when I asked about next steps, he said there's nothing new for me to work on right now. I'd really like to actually see him publish web code, or see other tasks that would teach me the parts I'm still missing, or learn how to on my own somehow.

On the UI side, I've been told I'm making too many commits (even though I was only doing one commit per ticket - still not totally sure what the issue was), PRs, and that I need to run any UI changes by the team before making them for the rest of this sprint. I worked in a startup for my last role so I'm more used to making changes quickly. So it would be nice if I could be paired up with a senior dev on a couple of projects before going solo next sprint so I can see their workflow and how they interact with the rest of the team. Shadowing someone for a day or two would be ideal, but I'm the only US-based member of the UI team, so time zones make that tricky.

Ideally I'd walk away with an actual structured learning plan, but I think the team is stretched too thin to dedicate time to teaching me. Things should be slowing down next sprint so maybe they could? I'm not sure how other companies go about this.

So how should I approach this meeting and ask for more training without coming across as needy or unconfident?

It’s currently 3 AM, my Advil that I took an hour and a half ago isn’t working so I just took a Tylenol. I really don’t want to work with probably <5 hours of sleep and a painful ankle. Should I tell my manager I want a sick day for my ankle, lie and say I’m sick, or work anyway? It’s difficult because I’m also new and I took a day off today already.