While there are benefits of wide exposure and experience that comes from working on different projects, changing teams and projects every quarter can be counter-productive to one’s career growth. Learning and development is a time consuming process and typically, it takes a PM or Engineer 6-8 weeks to ramp up on new teams and projects. In other words, 12 weeks is usually not enough time to deliver significant success (in a repeatable way) on any medium to large scale project. In addition to that, if you’re changing teams every quarter, then there is a lot of context change involved which can negatively impact one’s productivity and ability to deliver fast results. If I were in this position, I would seek leadership support to switch to a more stable role internally, but if that doesn’t work then I would switch companies. Here are some of my suggestions to address this chaotic situation -
In short, quarterly reorganizations are counterproductive to your career growth and one can take the following measures to address such a chaotic situation - 1/ open up to your leadership and share your concerns, 2/ expand your value to the company and 3/ improve your communication and visibility in the company. However, if these measures don't yield results, despite your best efforts, then I would try to switch to a different company that can provide you with a better path for your career growth.
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