u/ToeMother8579

There's simply not enough time to figure out what's going on. I can't even seem to be able to see which map we are playing bare the split second where the map pick is happening. Faction an / pick order is okay, but oh boy, trying to decide which heroes to ban is impossible in the tiny time frame they give you. and then when you do get into a game, unless you're somehow a veteran, it's impossible to tell which map is being played, I'm im not mistaken?

Also i seem to be getting matched with people who have far higher ELO than me. For reference I am down at about 800!

What about a good "hero ban template" for the 6 factions that will help until I get to grips with the game?

Also, how do I know for example how many neutral towns there are in my starting area, for example?

Also given that there are only 6 factions, and the same 2 factions are consistently banned (Necropolis, Schism), is there even any point in trying to learn them?

Playing single hero FYI.

Any advice? Cheers.

Just to clarify, I am in Europe and not the US. At our workplace (country in general) yearly salary "hikes" are negotiated by thr union and the employer and are always low, around the 3% mark. Its a pot system too, meaning if you get slightly more, someone else gets slightly less. Obviously the end result of such a system is that everyone, regardless of performance, floats around 3%.

How do you maintain motivation in such an environment? How do you go the extra mile and make that code more robust and professional? Or document / create tickets for those little bugs you found? I just dont see the point when our contributions are constantly overlooked. Its even worse if you're the "silent workhorse" type.

As it stands now, im actively trying to do as little as possible on the job whilst honing my skills elsewhere while waiting out this rotten market. This is possible because they also dont monitor us what so ever. A dream job for some people to be sure, but a sure fire way to rot and stagnate too.

Our team got split up last year due to company taking on new projects. I stayed on the current project with a senior I worked well with (I’ve got ~4 YOE). We inherited a smooth way of working from our last teamlead: low bureaucracy, focus on fixing real issues, not busywork. We barely even worked in sprints but everything flowed seamlessly from one week to the next and the product is worth millions now.

That senior has since moved on, and we got two new hires. One’s fine. The other… not so much:

* Obsessed with rewriting perfectly working code to fit his preferred design patterns. A module went from a few dozen classes to ~100, now harder to maintain and buggy.

* Ignores company naming conventions.

* Pushes excessive documentation (changelogs, Confluence pages) that no one realistically reads.

* Complains our Jira tickets aren’t granular enough, despite that being normal for the company.

* Convinced the new PL to add excessive meetings- sprint planning, backlog, and stand ups now take half an hour for less than 5 people. (Last team was 10+ people and stand ups 15 mins...)

* Keeps adding unnecessary filters/tags to Jira. We had one board before and everyone was intelligent enough to manage their tickets from that.

* Argues with basically every suggestion I make.

It’s gotten to the point I dread work. How do you deal with someone who can’t accept there’s more than one way to do things?