Comment by ObiKenobi
5 days ago
I do not agree with the "you know within a week"-take. I'm now 14 years working in IT-Security. 9 of those years for the same company.
I got my next job through a headhunter. The first weeks I had a really good feeling of the company I liked it there after a few months it got worse and worse like they couldn't hide all the bad things anymore. I quit, next job was more or less the same. I quit. My current job? The first month I thought to my self "oh my god, where do I got here?", but now a six months in I really like it.
Maybe also other factors have some plays here like my move from consulting into an internal role, colleagues, the overall freedom, but imho it's hard to generalize something like that.
Assuming no big red flags (stuff like toxic boss, work culture, misrepresenting the JD), I'm with you on the 6 months thing, in most decently paid jobs there's a lot of complexity, give yourself 6 months to not just learn but gain confidence to start applying and trying to push against the machine a couple of times.