all the major cloud providers allow you to set billing alerts when your service cost exceeds a predetermined threshold

<https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html>

<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/cost-mgt-alerts-monitor-usage-spending>

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets

Mid-Level Software Engineer [SDE 2] at Amazon

Daniel Shapiro

build some positive momentum for yourself by tackling your most straightforward tasks immediately. this will give you confidence when you deal with ambiguous problems that might take a while to solve

read more code than you write for the first 90 days, and write as much as you can. find the thorniest code reviewer on your team and make sure they review as many of your CRs as possible. implement every nit, no matter how small

basically, be a sponge and reach out early/often for help. your team will appreciate your dedication and you'll learn much more than silo-ing yourself and watching tutorials

good luck! you got this 🚀

I'm surprised that Team A delegated critical work to a new hire before they reached the 90-day mark. I'm also surprised that Team A's response to blockers is to complain, rather than get to the root cause of those blockers. Why is the new hire struggling to complete their task, and why is the PM time-boxing it?

These are questions and observations I'd raise in the context of a team retro or blameless post mortem. In a vacuum, I see the new hire trying to compensate for Team A's lack of planning, guardrails, and failure to set expectations around communication and team availability.