Hi,

I just graduated recently and I have two years of software engineering experience from an internship-turned-part-time position working on enterprise software. I've been working at my dream company (a Fortune 100 company) and while I absolutely love the culture, the actual work is leaving me frustrated and hopeless.

The company is undergoing an organizational transformation, and this includes the engineering processes for the teams. I am on a team that thinks they're agile and it's horrible. Technically, we're following SAFe and it just feels like re-branded waterfall in sprints. Analysis sprint. Development sprint. Testing sprint. Rinse and repeat, but with twice as many meetings because we have to plan the sprint AND the sprint of sprints. After working in an Agile shop for 2 years, I've realized that my brain absolutely cannot handle doing the waterfall method. Of the new hires, I'm the only one with previous Agile experience, and my supervisors have been soliciting feedback about how to improve things. Oh, we also don't do any automated testing and I've sensed some hesitancy towards TDD.

I tried to offer up a few suggestions on how we might've handled things in Agile but I got the impression they didn't understand how it's remotely feasible to develop something new without having an established BRD, complete estimates, etc. We have stand-ups that last for 30 minutes. There are two full-length days of meetings every quarter for going over

I know I'm just one girl in a world of 10 year veterans so I know things aren't going to change overnight... but I do get the impression that my supervisors are authentically trying to improve our processes, so I feel like as one of the only new hires with actual Agile experience, I'm uniquely positioned to help guide things along. Hell, it'd make me feel like I'm contributing more than I am by sitting in meetings all day. I'm by no means an agile or TDD expert, but I feel like getting even a fifth of the way would be a huge improvement.

Have any of you dealt with a similar scenario? How did you handle it? What would you suggest I do?