I've been working with my team lead for 3 years now, and I genuinely think they're dead weight. I'm the defacto team lead because I'm the most technically competent on the team and also because I: mentor the less experienced devs on the team, created the design and roadmap for our software, and help the team lead with practically every decision.
The team lead has difficulty completing simple tasks. They aren't learning the technologies we're using (Git, React, etc.) even though they're allowed to spend all the time they want to learn them. They don't seem competent in our core language (C#), and when given a task to write something new, they wrote it in Basic even though no one else on the team knows it. The team lead doesn't mentor. They don't have a solid grasp on the current state of our software. They rubber-stamp pull requests. When I asked for mentoring regarding interviewing a potential new hire, we didn't really evaluate the candidate in the interview at all (and I received no mentoring on the topic).
I've come to a point where working under the team lead is starting to seriously bother me, and I'm not sure what to do. Any advice?
The team lead has difficulty completing simple tasks. They aren't learning the technologies we're using (Git, React, etc.) even though they're allowed to spend all the time they want to learn them. They don't seem competent in our core language (C#), and when given a task to write something new, they wrote it in Basic even though no one else on the team knows it. The team lead doesn't mentor. They don't have a solid grasp on the current state of our software. They rubber-stamp pull requests. When I asked for mentoring regarding interviewing a potential new hire, we didn't really evaluate the candidate in the interview at all (and I received no mentoring on the topic).
I've come to a point where working under the team lead is starting to seriously bother me, and I'm not sure what to do. Any advice?