You just don't understand some choices of managers

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I was hired by a company to professionalize a development team. There are several external employees who want to replace management with internal employees. So far so good. Now 2 people have been hired and none of the team has been involved in the application process and interview. This does not seem useful to me because team members can determine whether someone fits in the team and has the required knowledge.

In this case that did not happen. So today the new developer came for his first day. Partly due to holidays there was not really a training program set up to board him so they asked me to pick this up. In itself strange as external but ok. The first thing I did with him today was getting a cup of coffee. Then I explained to him exactly what we do, how we do it and how the team works.

Then I asked him about his background. He immediately indicated that he was not a developer, and of course I was surprised because he was hired as a developer. Agile (scrum) is being worked on within our team, and he had no knowledge of that ... Another surprise for me. And finally, I asked him how good he is with Powershell, and he didn't know enough about that either.

I sincerely wondered how on earth he could be hired. Almost 100% no score. When I had parked it at a colleague's office, I started calling the manager who hired him. I didn't get it, so I sent an app. My question was pretty simple, to which of the team should I link it to show the environment? And I reported my findings. I got a message back that he would become a SCRUM master (the role that I now play) but that he would receive training for this (he knew nothing about this), he would also be trained as a developer and I was not allowed to join him at the operations team ... This all seemed rather strange to me ... It seemed as if the manager had a totally different picture of the person then I had in my room..

The most bizarre came at the end of the day. A direct colleague from my team had a brief chat with the new man, more to have a social chat. He said "welcome to the team" and do you know what the new man said? Uh .... yes, this wasn't really the intention at all .... So he doesn't like the place, as a developer. I was dumbfounded ...

How can such a mismatch arise? I immediately submitted a meeting for tomorrow morning with the manager to discuss this because this is going wrong, believe me ...

I just don't get it....Why is it often with managers that they make choices without getting feedback of the team. In this case, when the new man is really hired on the wrong purpose he is going to be very unhappy... The other side, the team is having someone they can't build on and that again is bad for team spirit and eventually productivity...

Have a great night and I hope things will be cleared tommorow...

Peter

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