[donavanm]

I spent a few years at Apple, a decade+ in AWS, and now at another mega cloud co. IME expect 3 months to understand whats going on and become useful. Ask questions or “raise your hand” when stuck for a day, you should have an “onboarding buddy” coworker and manager who are invested in your success. Keep track of what youre doing, when youve asked for help, and what youve accomplished on a daily or weekly basis. Use this as a (bi)weekly 1:1 topic to set expectations with your manager.

Re: complications, increase your sense of scale beyond anything you imagined. Youre now inside of an industrial process. Depending on your company youve gone from ~100 coworkers to literally 10-40,000 other SDEs working in the same environment. There are probably more dev teams than previous coworkers. All sorts of things get complicated at that scope.

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