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by papaf 2211 days ago
I have onboarded new project members remotely for the last few years and so I can try to answer this question by explaining what kinds of behaviour I think are helpful:

- Ask for help whenever you are blocked. People do this face to face but are less likely to do it when remote.

- Before you start working on something, talk through your approach with someone. When remote, it is easy to go off on a tangent and nobody notices for days.

- Take the time to do some smalltalk (the social thing, not the computer language) as part of more formal one on ones. Its another one of these behaviours that occurs naturally in an office but less when remote.

- Most of your visible impact will be things like Jira tickets, documentation, text chats -- take care and go the extra mile with these e.g with formatting, diagrams and clarity.

Good luck!