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Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rimu@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨experienced_devs@programming.dev⁩

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42656184

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  • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For me, the most important thing is always simply understanding who has what role in the company. When I have a question, knowing whether I ought to ask my direct manager, other colleagues on the team, a subject matter expert, other management teams, our sysadmins, etc. is the most difficult thing to figure out. It can take months sometimes.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you're a software engineer, you'll probably be walked around to "see the building(s) & teams" and then get some simple task to get you up to speed and learn about the environment, all under the supervision of some person.

    Edit: didn't notice it's a software community.

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