Things to keep in mind when joining a new company

1. Focus of every employee at any level should be the strong effort to make his manager’s life easy. In the first week of joining, talk with manager and let him know your focus to make his/manager (direct manager and others) life easy and ask him about the tasks which he/she can delegate to you.
2. Invest into learning company’s & org’s operating principles so you can make decisions aligned with management.
3. Invest time into learning the company’s sales/operation/HR/tech stack early on to save time in the long term.
4. Build relationships with your teammates & manager. It goes a long way and helps build trust.
5. Being empathetic & kind is more important than being just smart. No one likes to work with an arrogant prick.
6. Ask questions and accept that you don’t know everything. Staying humble only makes you more pleasant.
7. Accept your mistakes and try not to repeat them. Even if it is hard and embarrassing.
8. Don’t get defensive at constructive critical feedback. It is extremely important to grow in life.
9. After a month of working, never say I’m new to the system and so, not aware of stuffs. People should get a feel – what a colleague he or she is, wo understood the system so well in 1 month.
10. Listen
11. Ask thoughtful questions
12. Don’t point out errors rather ask it as a question thinking that there is a good reason for it to be like that
13. Make connections. Go figure out how to do that effectively via remote

And if you’re in the IT industry, please remember the below points as well.

1. Read documents, understand architecture
2. Understand birds view technically, product, customer before going into weeds
3. See if they are deliver focused or code quality focused
4. Update onboarding documents and fix gaps
5. Google and search confluence before asking for help
6. Look at the last commits and PR. Compare it with how the ticket in Jira or document reads.
7. Understand their release and cadence
8. Don’t keep telling for the next six months “I am new here” to other team.

Good luck. Smile.

Be humble, accountable. Wish you the best