Do you have a mentorship program at your workplace? If you find someone outside of your team but in the same company, they can explain how to navigate unspoken

Do you have a mentorship program at your workplace? If you find someone outside of your team but in the same company, they can explain how to navigate unspoken rules, implicit mechanisms and subtle politics of your company. In most places, the HR and perf crap they tell you isn't actually how the sausage gets made. The reason why that senior dev is being an ass, or why your manager is MIA, or why your team had open headcount for you in the first place, may very well have nothing to do with you at all. Especially if you don't have a manager, it can be helpful to understand how your org actually works. First, it'll make you feel better (which is important), but crucially it informs you on how you should spend your time and what to focus on.