Yes I agree. A proper induction might help alot especially to have a guide helping you out with new things and reviewing your work. But a start-up with fewer members can't afford to particularly assign a senior dev to guide/mentor newbies as they already have a lot on their plate.
I knew before joining that ill have to learn alot of new things, some with guidance and some without.
Peter is the former President of the New Zealand Open Source Society. He is currently working on Business Workflow Automation, and is the core maintainer for Gravity Workflow a GPL workflow engine.
Just be aware that often startups exploit the good will and enthusiasm of developers. Having the odd crunch day where you need to do long hours isn't nessasarily a bad thing, but when it becomes the norm it is most certainly not cool.
Throwing a fresh developer at a problem and expecting a solution in a single day is pathological. I've spent a career cleaning up the mess left behind from this kind of thing. joeyoder.com/PDFs/mud.pdf
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Yes I agree. A proper induction might help alot especially to have a guide helping you out with new things and reviewing your work. But a start-up with fewer members can't afford to particularly assign a senior dev to guide/mentor newbies as they already have a lot on their plate.
I knew before joining that ill have to learn alot of new things, some with guidance and some without.
Just be aware that often startups exploit the good will and enthusiasm of developers. Having the odd crunch day where you need to do long hours isn't nessasarily a bad thing, but when it becomes the norm it is most certainly not cool.
Throwing a fresh developer at a problem and expecting a solution in a single day is pathological. I've spent a career cleaning up the mess left behind from this kind of thing.
joeyoder.com/PDFs/mud.pdf