Your immediate manager has no idea what he/she is asking you to do. Majority of team leaders got to their warm seats through internal politics, who-likes-whom, who-sucks-whom, est. That “majority” will make every effort to be the first when something is wrong but the last in there is success. There is no business plan, no one looks at the head counts or time budgets, you will receive absurd requests with unrealistic targets and forget about 40 hours work week. At the same time you cannot officially work extra - you cannot work on Sat/Sun but "find time during your day".
The same is about your “outstanding” peers – good honest people who really know the stuff are either already left or looking to leave shortly, except for those few poor souls who cannot move for external reasons. Those praised by TL’s are really working their tail off to get out to other department and will have no problems to eat you, if you are seems to be a potential competition. You will experience capitalism there at its best.
And it is not my subjective opinion – the fact is that out of those people whom I started with not long time ago, only 7% are still with the Team. I didn’t hear if anyone is sorry about leaving/losing Bloomberg. Think about it
