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A lot of comments are about the organization, I have a few actionable tips for you to work on by yourself. I joined a remote company a year ago and there are so
by Timpy 4y ago
A lot of comments are about the organization, I have a few actionable tips for you to work on by yourself. I joined a remote company a year ago and there are some things I did that helped a lot.
I made a Trello board with a default card that was a "Todo list" that I copied for every ticket. The checklist was an overly detailed how-to for our company workflow. Like "1. Pull main, 2. Branch off of main." And later when the dev work is complete, things like "run tests, write merge request, deploy to qa server". The process wasnt hard but it was long, and keeping it on a Trello board with a checklist for every ticket I did helped me offload the mental load and keep me consistent so I made fewer beginner mistakes in that regard. Just having a progress bar was invaluable, being able to log in on Monday and answer the question, "where was I with this ticket?"
The other thing I did that was really helpful (and unfortunately probably only applicable if you are working remote) was that I screen recorded all of my meetings. Most meetings were massive information dumps that I had no context for, it was like trying to collect rain water with my bare hands. So if I got help on how to work on a ticket I would have a video I could refer back to of a senior dev screen sharing with me, explaining how things work, which files I should be looking in, and answers to whatever questions I was asking along the way. I still had to bother people for clarification later, but I didn't have to ask them to repeat themselves.
The final thing I would recommend is to start taking notes as if you were going to give them to the next new hire. It helps you distill your own knowledge and it helps future-you when you have to come back to a thing you haven't done in a few months and you nearly forgot everything. I was dumping notes in the slack channel to myself at first, I recently downloaded Obsidian and I just started playing with that. Find what works for you.
I've been at this job for 14 ish months now and I only recently felt like I got over the beginner's hump, and I still have bad days. It's okay, you'll get there.