Ask HN: Start a new job tomorrow – what's important? I start a new position (contract-to-hire) tomorrow. What is important to you as your start a new position? |
Ask HN: Start a new job tomorrow – what's important? I start a new position (contract-to-hire) tomorrow. What is important to you as your start a new position? |
Go around introduce myself to my new colleagues, have lunch with them and try to establish a social network as soon as possible.
Again go through your work duties with your supervisor, make sure you have all tools and accesses needed to complete them.
Confirm with HR on company rules, work hours, reporting lines (time sheets, sick-leave report) and if they have any onboarding process.
Quickly look through your work, collect as many questions and uncertainities as possible and ask your colleagues/supervisor.
Also try to understand every bit of the source code, and make sure to not rock the boat too much on ur first few days always write code that blend in really well with the other pre written codes. You can battle for code changes later on.