Don't know if I just shot myself in the foot, but I reached out to my previous team lead who abruptly left a couple of months ago with no real reason, but I have a suspicion that I'm looking to leave the company for similar reasons.

Manager said "he butted heads with us on how we do things."

Well, I am butting heads with them now.

Would be interesting to see what he says. He is a genuinely nice guy.