Starting a New Job in Tech

What's This One About?

This week, Matt and Mike discussed what starting a new job in tech is like. Since many tech jobs deal with large teams and complex projects, there is a lot of onboarding that needs to happen to get you set up as a new team member. This includes things like getting access to git repos, your email address, and more. In addition to project management to-dos like understanding the team's organizational structure like SCRUM, when they do their standups, how sprints are scheduled, and so on.

Show Notes

• Signing the offer
• Don’t be afraid to negotiate
• Onboarding
• Phishing/security tests
• Get equipment (laptop)
• Access to internal tools
• Email
• Jira
• Github
• Confluence
• CI/CD
• Etc
• Setup slack/discord
• Talk to the team you’ll be working with closely
• Hierarchy
• Find out how success will be measured for you
• Meetings/Task Management
• SCRUM
• Sprints
• Sprint planning
• Standups
• Retrospective
• Backlog
• Daily standups
• Planning poker
• 1,2,3,5,8,13,21
• JIRA (task management)
• Talk to the board, know your tasks
• Codebases
• Get access to the code bases on git
• Find the documentation and start setting up your local environment
• Make sure to get the local environment files (securely)
• Make edits to the readme’s while you set up the environment
• Learn the CI/CD workflow
• Don’t push to production! (Always PR)

Tips

• Ask questions
• Document answers
• Write/edit documentation
• Prompt responses/communication
• Be ok with receiving critical feedback (ask for it)
• Contribute to the codebase as quickly as possible
• Own your tasks
• If you need clarification ask
• Find out how your task impacts the project as a whole
• Be vocal with blockers
• Set up meetings

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