It's not necessarily a bad situation to be in. Now, before developing your personal projects at work, perhaps you could look for company projects (existing or

It's not necessarily a bad situation to be in. Now, before developing your personal projects at work, perhaps you could look for company projects (existing or new) you could work on? Otherwise, for big corporations, this can be a strategy, to hire all good workers they can, even if they don't have work for them to do, since this prevents the competition to hire them and compete. A typical example of that is Google.