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I joined a startup pod for about half an year.

As an experienced hire, I was put to work on my previous alphas. I was kind of limited to all the works I have done before and not having new exposures.

PM came from a prestige fund, where the culture there discouraged collaboration and limits QRs exposures of researches.  PM brought the same culture here. 

I felt the PM gave me limited helps/inspires. And I don't feel a growth opportunity. 

Should I quit? Quit immediately? Or wait another year to see if anything will change? ( I don't really think so)

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