[thisone]

the entire programming team is a bunch of 'loan wolves'?

I'd say, yeah, that's a red flag. You aren't discussing issues and making decisions with input even from your own team members?

[oldsklgdfth]

the entire team is 3 guys. The lead, a senior guy and me.

We all have tasks that are pretty independent of each other, so there's no real need to talk and there's not real oversight in the form of peer-review or testing.

Every now and then there will be glimpses of discussing issues. For the most part I work alone till someone asks me what I'm doing. I tell them what I'm doing and the say I should be working on something slightly different than what I've been doing.