Nail Your First 30 Days as a Software Developer at a Tech Company
Recently, Microsoft surveyed 30,000 workers in 31 countries about work, and according to the survey results, 41% of workers globally are thinking about quitting their current jobs. It doesn’t require a genius to figure out that tech companies are going to be the ones most impacted by this as the tech industry is one of the fastest-growing industries amidst the global pandemic. So if you are a software developer, you will likely be joining a new company in the next 12–18 months.
Changing to a new job can be quite stressful — but it’s also a good thing. It puts you outside of your comfort zone and stretches you. It makes you see and think about things that you wouldn’t normally think twice about at your previous job — such as making a commit to the company’s repo, seeing your work live on production, joining your team stand up, and asking someone to review your pull request. When you are too comfortable at your workplace and you have gotten used to the process and tools, you tend to take things for granted and operate on an auto-pilot mode. Changing your environment, be it a new team within the same company or a new job altogether at a different company, makes you become more aware of yourself and what you do day to day as a developer.
Besides generic new hire questions like What time should you start work? How friendly should you be in your first week?, this article aims to provide answers to all the software development-related questions that you, as a new developer, wanted to ask your fellow developers or your development manager but were too afraid to.
