however I joined this role for a lateral career pivot for embedded software engineering and I haven't been assigned a project involving embedded software engineering. I understand contracts can cause pivots but I will have to look elsewhere soon if I can't even be partially allocated to a project in embedded. I've been a part of two projects so far. Awaiting a new manager to assist with this but can't be reassigned a manager until the reorganization.
If compensation was much higher I might be able to sit this out longer but this combined with the lack of approvals for outside work requests for employees less than a year is frustrating.