Additional meeting and call-related features and issues within Microsoft Teams for business
I'm curious how many people who reported this issue here are using VPN to connect to On-Prem. Reason why I ask is because this is a typical experience (slow, sluggish, hanging, etc.) when you access Teams (which is obviously Cloud Application) through your corporate Firewall / VPN / Proxy servers and this behavior is expected.
If you do use VPN and you have slowness issue with Teams but your organization allows you to connect to Teams without corporate VPN try closing VPN and test Teams again and report your experience. It is well known issue and the only fix for this is implementing Split Tunnel VPN (search Google for that and you will see).
Another issue (also well-known) is if you use any third-party Anti-Virus / Anti-Spyware / Anti-Malware / Whitelisting tools like McAfee, Carbon Black, FireEye or equivalent. Those are well-known to slow down your computer, and what is worse when you look in Task Manager you can see that Teams is causing high CPU utilization while in reality it is caused by constant scan by third-party tool.
To prove that try using your personal, non-corporate computer (even slow Surface 2 should work great) and you most likely will see how fast Teams is! Either you chat, create or edit documents or join online meeting with full HD video and audio it should be perfectly fine! I can tell you that Teams is very snappy application and there is nothing to fix!
Hope this can help to some people here. Please report back your results!