[jaquetheduck]

Something I wish the companies did at my last jobs was tell me more about how the business operates. The first week or so at a job usually overwhelms employees with very low-level work (how the release pipeline works, coding best practices) , that it's easy to lose track of what the overall goal of the business is.

Taking the time to explain some of the higher level processes can provide a lot of context for why certain operations work the way they do.

I personally like to know:

1. The history of the business

2. Which problems it solves well, and which it needs improvement in.

3. Which problems it has failed at solving in the past.