Hired as a Python developer, first ticket was in a Go service nobody on the team maintains
Job description: Python, Django, Postgres. What I have written in nine days here: Go.
Apparently the person who owned that service left in March and the work got absorbed. Nobody was hiding it, it genuinely just didn't come up.
I said yes because I didn't feel like I had the standing to say "that isn't what I was hired for" in week two. So now I'm three days into a language I've never written, in a codebase with almost no comments, moving at about a fifth of my normal speed.
Is this normal-and-fine, or is this something I should actually be flagging?
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AnonymousAnon Flag it, but as a support question rather than a complaint — something like "happy to own this, what's the long-term plan for who maintains it, and can I get someone reviewing my Go closely for a while?" That gets you actual help and puts the staffing gap on the record, without you being the person who said no in week two.