[jimmont]

During the first 2 to 6 weeks on a job (it probably varies more than this) most corporate US environments expect significant amount of time to go to processing/onboarding. When providing status updates in meetings just state as much, usually with little to no specifics. I've yet to see anyone respond at all within the first month. What's remarkable to me is the amount of overhead/cost associated with these institutional mechanics, despite tools like Workday, which frankly I don't see as actually being effective. Staff counts of 2 and more (in addition to the new person) with these tools still can't manage to communicate with new staff where to go, where to send equipment, etc which reveals a significant need in the market.

[daniel-cussen]

Yeah a Stanford professor told me you need 6 months to be productive in a coder job. 3 months, others have said. To pull your weight, and then pull more than your weight.

Of course where I've worked the firing threats start on day 1, and they obviously expected (Unholster for one) that I work at home. Those guys wanted the whole install to be done at the end of day 1.