Requesting change of team [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I am graduating this year from href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/university">university (United States), and have a job offer at a large scale software company. I was an intern at this company this past summer and I was not a huge fan of being a part of my team. They are all great people individually, but the team environment left a lot to href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/desire">desire (think: nobody eats lunch together, team mentality is to get in, do work, go home).

I have friends who interned / work at this company, and they have very vibrant team environments that sound like a bunch of friends working together. In fact, the company is pushing the culture towards this paradigm. I just happened to land in a team that is a little behind the times.

I have already signed the offer because offer deadlines are brutal, but I have been dreading going back to that team ever since. I have been thinking about asking the HR if I can move teams before starting at the company next year. The problem is that the offer is tied to my team specifically.

Question: if I email HR about a change of team request, will my manager know?

manpreet 3 years ago

Question: if I email HR about a change of href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/team">team request, will my manager know?

Yes, your manager will know.

You are on the hiring plan to start at a certain date in the future. If you request not to be on that href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/team">team, the manager must be notified so that they can find someone else to fill that role.

Your mistake was in accepting a position that you don't want. "Dreading going back to that href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/team">team" should have been the clue.

Instead, you should have thanked them for the offer, but indicated that while you love the company, you'd like to start out with a different href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/team">team. (You wouldn't need to get too specific about the reasons). You may have very well ended up with a good internal recommendation, assuming your internship work was well-regarded.

Now you are in a rather awkward position.

You could withdraw your acceptance and apply for an open position on another href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/team">team (if one exists). Or you could notify HR and just hope for the best.