I've been coding for over 20 years now! (WOAH, do I feel old)
I've touched just about every resource imaginable under the Sun (too bad they were bought out by Oracle)
I'm just shy of a month into a new job, after having 10+ years at my previous role, so this has been quite the experience for me!
They keep telling me that this has been the easiest onboarding experience they've had with anyone, while I'm often in the "eh, what do I do now..?" feeling. At least, that was the first week or so.
They handed me a Google Doc outlining "day one" activities, which really meant "week one" - They left 95% of the computer config to myself, so I could customize it however the hell I liked. Policy was great: "install whatever you want, as long as its legal", so I'm using all the tools I'm most familiar with and can work the fastest with.
There were instructions for things like setting up SSH keys, VPN access for remote work, 2FA, and other more complex tasks. It helps that in my previous role, I was pretty much software engineer, system admin, network admin, dba, and any other tech role all rolled into one due to the small size of the company. Now coming into a larger company and only doing "one" of those roles, I just breezed right through all the additional technical related onboarding tasks.
Some huge takeaways from my personal experience.
1) They foolishly gave me access to their internal wiki. This means I'm documenting EVERYTHING they teach me about their internal tools! Plus improving all of their existing docs (mostly just linking one doc to another when referencing it, because I was highly confused by internal terminology not realizing that was just documented "elsewhere")
2) They foolishly told me they had a #RANDOM channel on Slack on day 1... where I've started showing off how much of a wicked memelord I am in my day life.
I'm a fan of Open Source and have a growing interest in serverless and edge computing. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but they're doing good work eating bugs. I also stream on Twitch.
I'm just shy of a month into a new job, after having 10+ years at my previous role, so this has been quite the experience for me!
They keep telling me that this has been the easiest onboarding experience they've had with anyone, while I'm often in the "eh, what do I do now..?" feeling. At least, that was the first week or so.
They handed me a Google Doc outlining "day one" activities, which really meant "week one" - They left 95% of the computer config to myself, so I could customize it however the hell I liked. Policy was great: "install whatever you want, as long as its legal", so I'm using all the tools I'm most familiar with and can work the fastest with.
There were instructions for things like setting up SSH keys, VPN access for remote work, 2FA, and other more complex tasks. It helps that in my previous role, I was pretty much software engineer, system admin, network admin, dba, and any other tech role all rolled into one due to the small size of the company. Now coming into a larger company and only doing "one" of those roles, I just breezed right through all the additional technical related onboarding tasks.
Some huge takeaways from my personal experience.
1) They foolishly gave me access to their internal wiki. This means I'm documenting EVERYTHING they teach me about their internal tools! Plus improving all of their existing docs (mostly just linking one doc to another when referencing it, because I was highly confused by internal terminology not realizing that was just documented "elsewhere")
2) They foolishly told me they had a #RANDOM channel on Slack on day 1... where I've started showing off how much of a wicked memelord I am in my day life.
Nice!