Onboarding Tips Within Smaller Companies

Some relevant tips if you're onboarding as an engineer in a smaller company:

• Smaller companies will have less process and, therefore, a less formal onboarding. This means it's more important to get stuff done quickly since you can't rely on a bunch of classes or hand-holding.
  • A good benchmark is to land code within a week
• In a smaller company, a lot of knowledge will be in the heads of a few people
  • Your goal is to find the tenured people and ensure you understand their worldview and prioritization.
• Don’t assume processes or people exist. Especially if you come from a larger company, you should not assume that there is a well-defined QA (Quality Assurance) team or design team.