A promising sign for a new employee is if they can have a quick win, no matter how small. This means you want to avoid ambiguous or complex projects.
Ideas for quick wins:
- Share something your learned
- Update docs and tell people about it (not to brag, but to invite feedback)
- Improve wikis by adding screenshots: e.g. a screenshot or video of the setup flow
- Fix a "papercut," e.g. a misspel