[yazaddaruvala]

Really all it is is "3 days to showcase you have a working compiler, ide, formatter, can run the tests, and are familiar with the CR tools".

The rest of it is learned (hopefully quickly) through the CRs, and any senior engineer should be comfortable making a few idiomatic mistakes in their CRs that they learn from.

[8note]

That sounds like a description of the team onboarding process, not the engineer doing the onboarding.

Any engineer should be able to do this because the team has written good wikis and has working build tools, tests, etc

[lupire]

None of that is "3days" . That's all the negative days before you start using the language.

I could do all those setup things in N days without ever learning any programming language.

[yazaddaruvala]

I think you’ve misread / misunderstood the original post.

“3 days into the job”