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Nick Taylor • Edited

Do the onboarding if they have it. If they don't, or it's lacking take some initiative to improve it. In one place I didn't have an account for something, so I added it to the docs. In another, I documented something about some processes for devs. The next person that comes along will thank you for it. 😉

Get the code running, see if you can understand what's going on. Ask questions, generally just be hungry to learn. I wrote a bit about onboarding in this post.

For the record though, the onboarding at DEV is top-notch. Even though it is top-notch, they still asked what could be improved. 👏🏻

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KJ

Awesome! I really like the part about improving it if you can. "Leave it better than you found it" and all that. Thanks for the advice!

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🦄N B🛡 • Edited

In one place I didn't have an account for something, so I added it to the docs.

sniff You, sir, are an everyday hero.

What you're describing is basically the first activities of the heroine in The Unicorn Project, spanning multiple chapters. It's an underrated type of work.