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There is a difference between going rogue and taking initiative though! Talk to your manager or set up some 1:1s with people on your team, just saying "I have b

There is a difference between going rogue and taking initiative though! Talk to your manager or set up some 1:1s with people on your team, just saying "I have bandwidth" during standup isn't really the best time. While talking with your teammates try to ask what projects or tasks they would like to see done but don't have the time. Flaky integration tests? Implement a ticket flow for incoming bug reports? Improve team wiki and system documentation? There's got to be lots of things to do. And like a previous comment said, waiting around for work is a junior mindset. Take a look around and try to improve the pain points for your team.

devoutsalsa 4y ago
Depends on the culture. After working in startups, I joined a bigger company. I burned through the work they gave me & convinced myself that I’d get fired for not having stuff to work on. I started proposing stuff to work on, but the problem was I couldn’t get access to any of the systems. I couldn’t push containers to the container registry. I couldn’t access GitLab admin settings. I couldn’t commit to repos with our Chef recipes. Everything I wanted to improve was in someone else’s sphere of influence, and I had to justify extracurricular commits on my team’s projects because every change had to be review by our understaffed QA team. I finally realized that the expectations of me were really low and that I needed to accept being underutilized or I’d go crazy.